George Eliot

George Eliot is the pen name of the English novelist Mary Ann Evans, born in 1819 and died in 1880. A major novelist of the Victorian era, she is usually classified under foreign literature. This library holds 27 of her works, including several English-language volumes of The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner. She is known for profound psychological portrayal and moral insight, and for her meticulous depiction of English rural society; her other major works include Middlemarch and Adam Bede. Her writing interweaves individual destiny with social ethics, presenting ordinary people's inner struggles and exerting a lasting influence on the later development of the English novel.