#FredericWilliamBurton (1816-1900),
Portrait of #MaryAnnEvans (1819-80) who was #BornOnThisDay
1865
National Portrait Gallery
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After François D'Albert Durade (1804-86),
Portrait of #MaryAnnEvans (1819-80) who was #BornOnThisDay
1849–1886, based on a work of 1849
National Portrait Gallery
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#CarolineBray (1814-1905)
Portrait of #MaryAnnEvans (1819-80) who was #BornOnThisDay
1842
National Portrait Gallery
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📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 6 November 1856, #MaryAnnEvans submitted "Scenes of Clerical Life', her first work of fiction, for publication. The three stories were published anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine throughout 1857. [1]
Did you know George Eliot was actually a woman called Mary Ann Evans?
She used a male pen name to be able to write without prejudice from male critics.
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Eliot's grave in Highgate Cemetery
7. "Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."
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“No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.”
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
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📸My 1895 Edition