Mary Anne (Evans) Cross (1819-1880)
The Author "George Eliot"
She was known an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, known by her pen name "George Eliot". She wrote seven novels, known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place, and detailed depiction of the English countryside: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862-63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871-72) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Virginia Woolf called Middlemarch, "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" whereas Martin Amis and Julian Barnes described it as the greatest novel written in the English language.
