George Eliot

English novelist, author of Middlemarch, 1819–1880. Explained quotes.

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About George Eliot

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, who used a man’s name so her novels would be taken seriously. Her books, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, are known for their deep, sympathetic portraits of ordinary lives.

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“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
Middlemarch, Chapter 72 (Dorothea), 1872
“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.”
Middlemarch, Finale, 1872