Eliot, George

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

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

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James

We recognize this same dramatic tensity of hopeless conflict in many stories as well as plays; it is most powerful in three or four novels by George Eliot, George Meredith, and Thomas Hardy.

From The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays by Leonard, Sterling Andrus

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