George Eliot
AUTHOR

George Eliot

Tap the gear icon above to manage new release emails.
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 is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871-72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. She also wished to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years. Her 1872 work Middlemarch has been described by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Swiss artist Alexandre-Louis-François d'Albert-Durade (1804-86) [Public Domain], via English Wikipedia.
Read more Read less
Not an Audible member?
From £7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Start your free 30-day trial

Best Sellers

Product list
  • Middlemarch cover art

    £23.99 Regular price:

  • The George Eliot BBC Radio Drama Collection cover art

    £16.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • Middlemarch cover art

    £29.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • The Ultimate Classics Collection – Volume One: 15 Novels from Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Tolstoy, Melville, Brontë, &am

    £119.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • Middlemarch cover art

    £16.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • The Mill on the Floss cover art

    £16.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • Daniel Deronda cover art

    £23.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • The Mill on the Floss cover art

    £19.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • The Essential British Classics Collection: 5 Timeless Novels cover art

    £59.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • Silas Marner cover art

    £12.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • Middlemarch cover art

    £4.49 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • Silas Marner with A Christian Readers' Guide cover art

    £38.49 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • Adam Bede cover art

    £20.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • Middlemarch cover art

    £7.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • The Mill on the Floss cover art

    £30.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • The Ultimate Classics Collection – Volume Two: 15+ Novels, Stories, and Poems from Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Bront&e

    £119.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • Romola cover art

    • Romola

    • By: George Eliot
    • Narrated by: Lucy Scott
    • Length: 22 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.0 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

    £27.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • Silas Marner cover art

    £12.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • Scenes of Clerical Life cover art

    £12.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00
  • Felix Holt, The Radical cover art

    £16.99 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try for £0.00

Are you an author?

Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.
Visit Amazon Author Central