Mary Anne Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was a leading Victorian novelist born in 1822 and died in 1880. She wrote seven major novels including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871-72), and Daniel Deronda (1876). Adam Bede tells the story of Hetty Sorrel's downfall and her relationships with Adam, a local carpenter, Arthur, a young soldier, and Dinah, a Methodist preacher. It was praised for its realistic portrayal of rural life and characters.

2.  Born : Mary Anne Evans
22 November 1819
 Died : 22 December
1880 (aged 61)
 Pen name : George Eliot
 Occupation :Novelist

3. She was a leading Victorian Novelist.
Mary Anne Evans known by her pen
name George Eliot.
She also translator , Journalist , poetist.
She used a male pen name.
The philosopher and critic George Henry
Lewes met Evans in 1851, and then 1854
they had decided to live together.

4. She wrote seven major well known
Novels…..
Which were described as under…..
1).Adam Bede
2).The Mill on the Floss
3).Silas Marner
4).Middlemarch
5).Daniel Deronda
6).Romola
7).Felix Holt , The Radical

5.  Publication date 1859.
 The story's plot follows four characters.
 The novel revolves around a love "rectangle“
between Hetty , Arthur , Adam , Methodist.
 Adam is a local carpenter who loves Hetty.
 She (Hetty ) is attracted to Arthur.

7. Adam Bede : Adam is strong, intelligent, and fairly well
educated for a peasant. Adam believes that working hard
is a way of doing God’s work and is at least as
important as religion itself. He hates all evil and does
Hetty Sorrel : Her downfall is the primary action of the nove
Hetty wants everyone to notice her beauty.
Hetty is a foil to Dinah’s character.
Captain Arthur Donnithorne : Captain Arthur Donnithorne
A young regimental soldier, heir to the Chase.
Seth Bede : Adam’s brother, a Methodist carpenter.
Although Seth is not as intelligent as Adam, he is motivated
by love and acts well in all things as a
result. Both gentle and kind, he is com

8. “ A Study of Provincial Life.”
Publication date 1874
Middlemarch is a work of realism.
It is a name of the Town
Yoke of the marriage.
The novel also divided into 3 part.

10. Three love problems
Dorothea and Will
Fred and Mary
Lydgate and Rosamond

11. Characterization
Dorothea Brook : she is smart, and
beautiful By giving money to
Lydgate’s hospital, she is able to help
the less fortunate, and by giving
money directly Lydgate, she frees him
from his debt to Bulstrode.
Tertius Lydgate : Doctor. Although
he is of high birth, Lydgate wants to
be a country doctor.
Rosamond is the most genteel

12. Celia Brooke : She marries Sir James
Chettam.
Mary Garth : She loves Fred, but she refuses
to marry him if he becomes a clergyman and
fails to find a steady occupation.
Will Ladislaw : Will Ladislaw is the grandson
of Casaubon’s.
Fred Vincy : Fred Vincy is the oldest son of
Walter and Lucy Vincy.
Arthur Brooke : He hires Will Ladislaw to
write for his paper, the Pioneer.