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, phrase of, on the word Love, 549 n.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin

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 T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott

Started in 1824 to represent Radical opinions, the Westminster was associated, in its palmy days, with such "persons of importance" as George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, and J.S.

From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson

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