English Literature / Unit 15 ENL 1414 short lesson, about 20 seconds
George Eliot
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The idea
George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, translator and assistant editor of the Westminster Review, lived openly with George Henry Lewes. She wrote seven novels, from Adam Bede, of eighteen fifty-nine, which argues for "the faithful representing of commonplace things," to Daniel Deronda.
In practice
A woman with a man's pen name; realism of sympathy.
Where people slip
George Eliot was a woman.
Your place on the trail
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