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 Jacob S. Raisin

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 Octavius Brooks Frothingham

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 Satires And Profanities by G. W. (George William) Foote