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 \nFirst Published in 2019 by:The Littoral Press15 Harwood PlaceLavenhamSuffolk CO109SG  \nISBN 978-1-912412-13-6  \nCMargaret Eddershaw 2019  \nC Front cover design Berni Stevens 2019  \nBritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data:A catalogue record of this book is available fromthe British Library  \nAll rights reserved  \nPrinted by 4Edge Ltd.Hockley,Essexwww.4edge.co.uk  \nFROM GEORGE TO GEORGE Margaret Eddershaw  \nMARY ANNE EVANS/GEORGE ELIOT  \nMary Anne Evans was born in Nuneaton on 22dNovember,1819.She was the third child of Robert Evans and his secondwife,Christiana.Her full siblings were Chrissy and Isaac.Shehad a half-brother,Robert,and half-sister,Fanny.Her fatherwas the manager of the Arbury Estate for the Newdigate familyin Warwickshire.From the age of five till sixteen Mary Annewas in three boarding schools.  \nAt the age of sixteen,she went home to care for her sickmother,who died in 1836.She then became the housekeeper forher father and brother,Isaac.When Mary Anne was twenty-one,Isaac married and took over the family home.She and herfather moved to Foleshill,near Coventry.She became closefriends with neighbours,Charles and Cara Bray,who wereprogressive and free-thinking Unitarians.They encouraged herto translate The Life of Jesus by Strauss,which was her firstpublication in 1846.  \nHer father died in 1849.Mary Anne was thirty and travelledabroad for the first time with the Brays.She stayed in Genevafor five months.On her return to England in 1850,she changedher name to Marian and moved to London.She becameassistant editor for The Westminster Review,working alongsideits owner,John Chapman.She met George Henry Lewes in1853.  \nIn July,1854,Marian and George Henry Lewes travelledtogether to Weimar and Berlin.He was writing a biography ofGoethe.This trip was regarded by them as a honeymoon.Sheadopted the name of Marian Evans Lewes.They were inGermany for six months.  \nOn their return,they set up house together and Marian beganwriting stories that were published as Scenes of Clerical Life,under the pen-name of George Eliot.Her second book and firstnovel,Adam Bede,published in 1859,was a great success.Withthe dedicated support and encouragement of George HenryLewes,Eliot continued to write novels for the next fifteen years:Mill on the Floss(1860),Silas Marner(1861),Romola(1863),Felix Holt(1866),Middlemarch(1871),Daniel Deronda(1876).  \nShe also wrote and had published a large collection of poems.Her final book was The Impressions of Theophrastus Such(1879),drawing on the Greek philosopher's Characters,thatdescribe the behaviour of different types of men.  \nWhen George Henry Lewes died in 1878,Eliot completed thefinal volume of his The Problems of Life and Mind,publishedin1880.  \nShe died 22nd December,1880.  \nGEORGE HENRY LEWES  \nGeorge Henry Lewes was born in London on 18ᵗhApril,1817,the illegitimate son of John Lee Lewes and Elizabeth Ashweek.When George was six,his mother married a retired sea-captain.Frequent 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