Griff House, George Eliot’s childhood home, in which she lived from infancy until she was twenty-two, looks much as it did in the early nineteenth century, at least if you approach it from the front: ...

In her new novel, "The Honeymoon," Dinitia Smith has taken on the most enigmatic portion of the life of Marian Evans, the woman behind the pseudonym George Eliot. After a long and happy relationship ...

This week in the magazine, Rebecca writes about George Eliot and "Middlemarch." Join her online today at 3 P.M. E.T. for a live chat. Click here to set an e-mail reminder and to join the chat. When I ...

THE writer of these pages has observed that the first question usually asked in relation to Mr. Cross’s long-expected biography is whether the reader has not been disappointed in it. The inquirer is ...

A journalist and translator, George Eliot was one of the leading writers of the Victorian Era and "used a male pen name... to ensure her works would be taken seriously" and "to escape the stereotype ...

When George Eliot agreed (reluctantly, by all accounts) to have her portrait made in 1865, she surely never imagined that her face would be forever linked with her published works. Yet today when we ...

A new biography examines how the novelist chose to make her life, as well as her fiction and art, outside the conventions of the marriage plot. In an anonymously published essay, “Silly Novels by Lady ...

George Eliot – the pen name of Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans – is celebrated today as a writer of realist novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Middlemarch (1871) and Daniel ...

“A marriage is so hideously private,” the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch wrote in 1978. “Whoever illicitly draws back that curtain may well be stricken, and in some way that he can least ...

In Love with George Eliot. By Kathy O’Shaughnessy.Scribe; 400 pages; £16.99. THIS MONTH marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Eliot—author of one of the greatest novels of the Victorian ...

Holly Lodge, a three-story brick row house in Putney, London, and former residence of renowned novelist George Eliot, hit the market Thursday asking £2.795 million (US$3.44 million). Mary Ann Evans, ...