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

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

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

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 Colvin, Sidney