George Eliot (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880) was an English Victorian novelist, poet amd journalist known for the psychological depth of her characters and her descriptions of English rural life. Her major works included Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860)and Middlemarch (1871–72).

George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, was a distinguished English Victorian novelist, poet, and journalist, renowned for the psychological depth of her characters and her vivid depictions of English rural life.