Famous British Writers by 1st Bach Bil. students

1. Alba González
(pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans)

2. INDEX
• Biography
• Work

3. BIOGRAPHY
• She was one of the leading English
novelists of the 19th century.
• Mary Ann Evans was born in Nuneaton,
Warwickshire, England. Because of her
intelligence, her father invested in an
education not often afforded women. She
was educated in the evangelical rigor.
• When her mother died in 1836, Eliot left
school to help run her father's household.
In 1841, she moved with her father to
Coventry and lived with him until his
death in 1849. Eliot then travelled in
Europe, eventually settling in London.

4. • In 1850, Eliot began contributing to the
'Westminster Review', a leading journal for
philosophical radicals. Later became its
editor and met the main literary figures of
the time, such as George Henry Lewes,
philosopher, scientist and critic, whom he
fell in love with. They lived together even
though Lewes was married.
• While continuing to contribute pieces to the
Westminster Review, Evans resolved to
become a novelist.
• After Lewes death Eliot married a friend,
John Cross, who was 20 years her junior. She
died on 22 December 1880 and was buried in
Highgate Cemetery in north London.

5. WORK
• 1857-'Scenes of Clerical Life', stories about the people of her native
Warwickshire, which were published in 'Blackwood's Magazine‘.
NOVELS
• 1859-first novel, 'Adam Bede‘ it was a great success.
• 1860-'The Mill on the Floss'
• 1861-'Silas Marner'
• 1863-'Romola'
• 1866-'Felix Holt, the Radical'
• 1872-'Middlemarch'
• 1876-'Daniel Deronda'

6. POETRY
•1868-'The Spanish Gypsy'
•1869-'Agatha'
•1874-'The Legend of Jubal‘
She used a male pseudonym to ensure her works were taken
seriously in an era when female authors were usually associated
with romantic novels.

7. POETRY
•1868-'The Spanish Gypsy'
•1869-'Agatha'
•1874-'The Legend of Jubal‘
She used a male pseudonym to ensure her works were taken
seriously in an era when female authors were usually associated
with romantic novels.