George Eliot
George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans was born on a farm in Warwickshire in 1819. After her father’s death she travelled on the continent and returned to begin writing for the Westminster Review, becoming assistant editor in 1851. Eliot’s novels, portraying farmers, traders and the lower middle classes, will always stand out among the greatest of the English school.
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The Mill on the Floss
Emily Watson, star of the BBC adaptation, reads this classic story of Tom and Maggie Tulliver: brother and sister torn apart by the ignorance of…