George Eliot

George Eliot was an English writer of the mid-Victorian Era. Her most notable works are the novels Middlemarch, published in 1872, and The Mill on the Floss, published in 1860.

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• Lifetime: 22 November 1819 • 22 December 1880
• Main genre: Contemporary fiction (at the time of publication)
• Literary movement: Realism
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