There’s no way to sugarcoat it: Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880) wrote under “George Eliot”, a male pen name, because she wanted her fiction to be taken seriously and believed Eliot was “a good mouth-filling, easily pronounced word.” Throughout her career as a novelist, critic, and translator, Mary Ann welded a politically astute pen and a realist philosophy. Equally unconventional in her private life as her professional, Mary Ann lived openly with a married man and later married another man twenty years her junior.
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