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Eliot, George

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  1. The nom de plume of Mary Ann Evans, a nineteenth-century English author. Some of her best-known novels are Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.


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The literary executors of TS Eliot, George Orwell and Lawrence Durrell have also held back letters and diaries from would-be biographers.

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2019

Ms. Freeman released the book under a pseudonym, Eliot George, inverting the nom de plum that Mary Ann Evans used to publish “Middlemarch.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2019

Eliot, George, influence of Herbert Spencer on, 334; and through her on language of literature, 334.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

I.—Alexandria Bartholomew Eliot George Warburton, who wrote as Eliot Warburton, was born in 1810 in Tullamore, Ireland, and died in 1852.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

Eliot, George, 138 Emerson, R. W., 21, 34, 42, 48, 68, 75, 122, 134, 135, 145, 166, etc.,

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks