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Which British novelist wrote 'Middlemarch' and 'Daniel Deronda'? (from A Dictionary of Writers and their Works)

‘Eliot, George’ [Mary Ann Eliot, later Marian, Evans] (1819–1880) British novelist
The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined by Dr David Friedrich Strauss (1846) Non-Fiction
The Essence of Christianity [as Marian Evans] (1854) Non-Fiction
Scenes of Clerical Life (1858) Fiction
Adam Bede (1859) Fiction
‘The Lifted Veil’ [in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] (July 1859)
The Mill on the Floss (1860) Fiction
Silas Marner, the Weaver of Waveloe (1861) Fiction
Romola (1863) Fiction
‘Brother Jacob’ [in the Cornhill Magazine] (June 1864)
Felix Holt, the Radical (1866) Fiction
The Spanish Gypsy (1868) Poetry
Agatha (1869) Poetry
Brother and Sister [as Marian Lewes] (1869) Poetry
Middlemarch (1871) Fiction
The Legend of Jubal, and Other Poems (1874) Poetry
Daniel Deronda (1876) Fiction
Impresssions of Theophrastus Such (1879) Fiction

How to cite this entry:
"‘Eliot, George’" A Dictionary of Writers and their Works. Ed. Michael Cox. Oxford University Press, 2001. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 17 July 2011