Eliot, George

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.

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

She used her own name while serving as screenwriter for a 1964 film adaptation drawn from “the novel by Eliot George.”

From Washington Post

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

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

From Project Gutenberg

Of course it is no blasphemy to dispute my estimate; but what prospect is there of reversing the common verdict of George Eliot, George Meredith, Swinburne, and Rossetti?

From Project Gutenberg