Biography
George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans on November 22, 1819, in Warwickshire, England. She began her literary career translating German philosophy, and in 1849, she moved to London and became an assistant editor of the Westminster Review. Widely considered one of the greatest English writers of her era, she is known for the eight novels she published under the name George Eliot, including Middlemarch (William Blackwood & Sons, 1872) and Silas Marner (William Blackwood & Sons, 1861). Eliot also published two collections of poetry, The Legend of Jubal, and other poems (James R. Osgood & Co., 1874) and The Spanish Gypsy (Ticknor and Fields, 1868). She died in London on December 22, 1880.
Novels by George Eliot
Poems by George Eliot
- Ay De Mi
- Blue Wings
- Bright, O Bright Fedalma
- Brother And Sister
- Came A Pretty Maid
- Count That Day Lost
- Day Is Dying
- God Needs Antonio
- I Am Lonely
- I Grant You Ample Leave
- In A London Drawingroom
- Making Life Worth While
- Mid My Gold-Brown Curls
- Roses
- Spring Comes Hither
- Sweet Endings Come And Go, Love
- Sweet Springtime
- The Choir Invisible
- The Radiant Dark
- The World Is Great
- Two Lovers