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George Eliot

1819 - 1880

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Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Eliot is the 590th most popular writer (down from 557th in 2019), the 535th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 394th in 2019) and the 57th most popular British Writer.

George Eliot is most famous for her novel, Middlemarch.

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Among writers, George Eliot ranks 590 out of 7,302. Before her are Adam de la Halle, Gaston Leroux, Patrick Süskind, Khaled al-Asaad, Bohumil Hrabal, and Gérard de Nerval. After her are William Makepeace Thackeray, Georges Perec, Antoine François Prévost, Denis of Portugal, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Su Shi.

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Among people born in 1819, George Eliot ranks 16. Before her are Báb, Hippolyte Fizeau, Maria II of Portugal, John Couch Adams, John Ruskin, and Franz von Suppé. After her are Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Annibale de Gasparis, Stanisław Moniuszko, George V of Hanover, William T. G. Morton, and Theodor Fontane. Among people deceased in 1880, George Eliot ranks 6. Before her are Gustave Flaubert, Jacques Offenbach, William Lassell, Maria Alexandrovna, and Henryk Wieniawski. After her are Paul Broca, Emperor Norton, Michel Chasles, Ned Kelly, Anselm Feuerbach, and James Craig Watson.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, George Eliot ranks 535 out of 8,785. Before her are David Brewster (1781), Cynric (450), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), Rudolf Abel (1903), Sweyn II of Denmark (1020), and Patrick Stewart (1940). After her are Charles Lyell (1797), Robert Burns (1759), Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882), Robert Plant (1948), John Boyd Dunlop (1840), and Archibald Hill (1886).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, George Eliot ranks 57. Before her are Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), Anthony Burgess (1917), James Hilton (1900), Beatrix Potter (1866), Frederick Forsyth (1938), and John Donne (1572). After her are Robert Burns (1759), Harold Pinter (1930), Samuel Johnson (1709), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), A. J. Cronin (1896), and Alexander Pope (1688).

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