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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Eliot, George

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, on Maimon's Autobiography, 88;   referred to, 297.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.

Eliot, George, 43, 47, 53, 436; Weimar recollections of, 258.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James

Eliot, George, on marriage, 6; on disappointment, 57; remarks about the best society, 115, weak women, 145; "Silas Marner" referred to, 155, 215, 236.

From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John