George Eliot

Book Description1930. The biography of Mary Ann Evans, Victorian writer, who wrote under the pseudonym George Eliot and was regarded as one of the greatest of English novelists. Her insightful psychological novels led the way to modern character portrayals. From the Preface: It is the aim of this study to recount the salient incidents of a very notable life and to draw attention to the beauty and value of the works produced in the course of it, works that have been suffered to remain too long in an unmerited penumbra.