George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) Claimed

Chilvers Coton CV10,Warwickshire,United Kingdom

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George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) was born in Chilvers Coton in 1819. She was a novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, and the author of seven novels. On 16 May 1880 Eliot courted controversy once more by marrying John Cross, a man twenty years her junior, and again changing her name, this time to Mary Anne Cross. The legal marriage at least pleased her brother Isaac, who had broken off relations with her when she had begun to live with Lewes, but now sent congratulations. While the couple was honeymooning in Venice, Cross, in a fit of depression, jumped from the hotel balcony into the Grand Canal. He survived, and the newlyweds returned to England. They moved to a new house in Chelsea, but Eliot fell ill with a throat infection. This, coupled with the kidney disease she had been afflicted with for several years, led to her death on 22 December 1880 at the age of 61.

Eliot was not buried in Westminster Abbey because of her denial of the Christian faith and her "irregular" though monogamous life with Lewes. She was buried in Highgate Cemetery (East), Highgate, London, in the area reserved for religious dissenters and agnostics, beside the love of her life, George Henry Lewes. In 1980, on the centenary of her death, a memorial stone was established for her in the Poets' Corner.

Adam Bede, 1859

The Mill on the Floss, 1860

Silas Marner, 1861

Romola, 1863

Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866

Middlemarch, 1871–72. She wrote this novel while living in Haslemere.

Daniel Deronda, 1876

Poetry

Agatha, 1869

Brother and Sister, 1869

Armgart, 1871

Stradivarius, 1873