Real Name/Birth Name: Mary Ann Evans Longfellow
Pen Name/Nickname: George Eliot

Father Name: Robert Evans (1773–1849)
Mother Name: Christiana Evans (1788–1836)
Boyfriend: George Henry Lewes (until his d. 1878)
Husband: John Walter Cross (banker, 1840-1924)

Date of Birth: 22 November 1819
Birth Place: South Farm, Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England
Date of Death: 22 December 1880 (aged 61)
Death Place: 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, England
Cause of Death: Kidney failure

Remains: Buried, Highgate Cemetery, London, England
Gender: Female
Religion: Christian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
Education: Miss Latham's school, Mrs Wallington's School, Miss Franklin's school
Occupation: Novelist, Journalist
Nationality: England

Influenced By: Miguel Cervantes, Honoré Balzac, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Schopenhauer, Walter Scott.

Influenced: Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Norman Mailer, Martin Amis, JK Rowling.

Major Writings: Adam Bede (1859, novel, 3 vols.); The Mill on the Floss (1860, novel, 3 vols.); Silas Marner (1861, novel); In Felix Holt, the Radical (1866, novel, 3 vols.); Middlemarch (1871, novel); Daniel Deronda (1876, novel, 8 parts).

English novelist, journalist and translator George Eliot (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880) was one of the most learned and respected English novelists of the Victorian period. George Eliot wrote using a male pen name to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Her real name was Mary Ann Evans.

Early Life & Childhood: Mary Ann Evans was born on 22 November 1819 at South Farm in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England. From ages 5 to 9, she boarded with her sister at Miss Latham's school in Attleborough. Then from ages 9 to 13 she studied at Mrs Wallington's school in Nuneaton and last from ages 13 to 16 she learned at Miss Franklin's school in Coventry. During these years, Mary discovered her love for reading. In 1836, she came back home after her mother died. In 1841, Mary moved to Foleshill in Coventry with her father. In Coventry, she met came into contact with a circle of people named Coventry society. Studying the Bible and their work influenced her very much. The circle included Robert Owen, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau, Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Through this society, she was introduced to more liberal theologies and writers such as David Strauss and Ludwig Feuerbach. In 1846, Mary finished her first major work, a translation of David Strauss’s Life of Jesus.

Personal Life: Mary Ann Evans's father Robert Evans (1773–1849 was Christiana Evans (née Pearson) (1788–1836) and her mother Christiana Evans (1788–1836). Her full siblings were Christiana, known as Chrissey (1814–59), Isaac (1816–90) and twin brothers who survived a few days in March 1821. She also had a half-brother, Robert (1802–64) and a half-sister, Fanny (1805–82). She met Philosopher George Henry Lewes in a common-law marriage until 1878. Then on 06 May 1880, Mary married John Walter Cross who was a banker.

Later Life & Death: Mary Ann Evans became the assistant editor of The Westminster Review in 1858. Here, she came into contact with a group known as the positivists who were supported by French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798–1857). In 1854, she travelled to Weimar and Berlin together for the purpose of research with Lewes. During this trip, she has known the works of Baruch Spinoza, John Chapman, Charles Dickens, Friedrich Engels and Wilkie Collins. In 1859, She completed her first novel Adam Bede which was published under an anonymous identity. Mary began to work on another novel Middlemarch in 1869 which was published two years later in 1871. The book broke all records in bookselling with made her much more famous and richer. She continued writing her last novel Daniel Deronda which was published in 1876. In 1876, Mary lost her lifelong partner and support George Henry Lewes. Mary Ann Evans died on 22 December 1880. She was buried at Highgate Cemetery, London, England; among other such esteemed literary figures as William Blake, Aphra Behn and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.