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  • After finishing a major Goethe biography in 1855 he left home to live with and shepherd the career of novelist George Eliot real name Mary Ann Evans.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • After finishing a major Goethe biography in 1855 he left home to live with and shepherd the career of novelist George Eliot real name Mary Ann Evans.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • Mary Ann Evans used a male pen name because she wanted her work to be treated seriously: we know her as George Eliot.

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • I also got to spend some quality time discussing sf and fantasy books with Mary Ann Evans, who's been working at Goerings 'bout as long as I've lived in town.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Darlene 2006

  • I also got to spend some quality time discussing sf and fantasy books with Mary Ann Evans, who's been working at Goerings 'bout as long as I've lived in town.

    Darlene's Digest Darlene 2006

  • The nom de plume of Mary Ann Evans, a nineteenth-century English author.

    Eliot, George 2002

  • ATTRIBUTION: GEORGE ELIOT (Mary Ann Evans), Felix Holt, the Radical, chapter 5, p. 63 (1980).

    George Eliot (1819-80) 1989

  • The nuns had of course disappeared and long since been forgotten, but other women had risen to take their places in the minds and memories of the people of Nuneaton, foremost amongst whom was Mary Ann Evans, who was born about the year 1820 at the South Farm, Arbury, whither her father, belonging to the Newdegate family, had removed from Derbyshire to take charge of some property in Warwickshire.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • Mary Ann Evans, or Marian as she was called, was born (1819) and spent her childhood in Shakespeare's county of Warwickshire.

    Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

  • Fielding himself took novel-writing by no means lightly, and Richardson still less so: but imagine either, imagine Scott or even Miss Austen, going through the preliminary processes which seemed necessary, in different ways, to Charles Reade and to Mary Ann Evans!

    The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

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