Mary Ann Cross (George Eliot) appears on her memorial stone. By 1852, she had changed to Marian, but she reverted to Mary Ann in 1880 after she married John Cross. Within her family, however, it was spelled Mary Ann. She spelled her name differently at different times: Mary Anne was the spelling used by her father for the baptismal record and she uses this spelling in her earliest letters. She was the third child of Robert Evans (1773–1849) and Christiana Evans ( née Pearson, 1788–1836), the daughter of a local mill-owner. Mary Ann Evans was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. 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. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside. Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England most of her works are set there. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876). 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.
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