George Eliot

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George Eliot

English novelist and poet (1819–1880)

📅 1819–1880 · 19th century📚 2 titlesEN 1ES 1

Biography

Mary Ann Evans, 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). Her novels are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place, and detailed depiction of the countryside. Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.

Biography in Spanish

Mary Ann Evans, más conocida por su seudónimo George Eliot, fue una novelista, poeta, periodista y traductora británica, y una de las principales escritoras de la época victoriana. Escribió siete novelas: Adam Bede (1859), El molino del Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1863), Felix Holt, el Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1874) y Daniel Deronda (1876). Al igual que Charles Dickens y Thomas Hardy, provenía de la Inglaterra provincial, en donde se ambienta la mayoría de sus obras. Sus obras son conocidas por su realismo, sus intuiciones psicológicas, sus sentido de la ubicación y sus detalladas descripciones del campo.

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