KIDS TRIVIA

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: -Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midland town, in 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education.

Detailed explanation-3: -Middlemarch is the name of the town where almost every scene of novel takes place. It’s a pretty average place, as the “middle” part of the name suggests. It’s a fictional town, but one that is supposed to be representative of dozens of other towns like it at this point in English history.

Detailed explanation-4: -After a long apprenticeship in literary journalism and translation in her twenties and thirties, she published three novels, Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861), in quick succession. They were widely admired and commercially successful.