AGES ERA PERIOD
VICTORIAN AGE
Question
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Mary Collins
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Marian Evans
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Lara Evans
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Clare Reeve
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Detailed explanation-1: -George Eliot was the pen name of the novelist Mary Ann Evans. She grew up in Warwickshire at a time when industrialisation was transforming the countryside. Her mother died when she was 17, and in 1841 she and her father moved to Coventry which she would use as inspiration for the fictional town of Middlemarch .
Detailed explanation-2: -George Eliot was the pen name of the novelist Mary Ann Evans. She grew up in Warwickshire at a time when industrialisation was transforming the countryside. Her mother died when she was 17, and in 1841 she and her father moved to Coventry which she would use as inspiration for the fictional town of Middlemarch.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1857 Eliot chose her pen name because she said: ‘George was Mr Lewes’s Christian name, and Eliot was a good mouth-filling, easily-pronounced word’. She chose to write under a pen name, as she felt women writers were not taken seriously.
Detailed explanation-4: -George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann, or Marian, Cross, née Evans, (born November 22, 1819, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England-died December 22, 1880, London), English Victorian novelist who developed the method of psychological analysis characteristic of modern fiction.
Detailed explanation-5: -Eliot wrote several works of fiction under her pen name. Eliot’s best-known works are The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1872), and Daniel Deronda (1876).