George Eliot
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 (1862β1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871β1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England, where most of her works are set. 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.
WikipediaGeorge Eliot Quotes (8)
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."
View quote details β"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."
View quote details β"Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it."
View quote details β"Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending."
View quote details β"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
View quote details β"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses."
View quote details β"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
View quote details β"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
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