Popular Classics The Mill on the Floss

After first publishing the feminist treatise Letters to Literary Ladies in 1795, she went on to be a prolific writer of some note. She anticipated the historical novels of Scott with her Castle Rackrent (1800). Other novels depicting Irish life include The Absentee (1812) and Ormond (1817). George Eliot (Mary Ann, later Marian, Evans) (1819–1880) After an education that encouraged her to convert to Evangelicalism and then to a freethinking religious creed, Eliot's first publication was an anonymous translation of Strauss's Life of Jesus (1846). She became a contributor to the Westminster Review and moved to London in 1851. Eliot's growing fascination with the philosophy of Feuerbach led to her 1854 translation of his Essence of Christianity. Soon afterward she informally became the companion of G. H. Lewes, a union that lasted until he died. Her first major novel, Adam Bede (1859), was a popular and critical success. It was followed by The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861). Romola (1862–1863) and Felix Holt, the Radical (1866) were written after a period in Florence ...»