{"id":1811,"date":"2012-11-22T04:01:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T09:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2017-04-21T08:39:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:39:12","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-and-george-eliot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/happy-thanksgiving-and-george-eliot\/","title":{"rendered":"George Eliot (1819-1880)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GeorgeEliot.jpg\" alt=\"George Eliot\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GeorgeEliot.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GeorgeEliot-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GeorgeEliot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GeorgeEliot-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mary Anne Evans, commonly known as George Eliot, was born on November 22, 1819.\u00a0\u00a0 Evans wrote under a male pen name to ensure that her works\u00a0 would be taken seriously.\u00a0 At the time it was thought that women authors wrote only lighthearted romances.<\/p>\n<p><em>Middlemarch,<\/em> for instance, deals with subjects like the Great Reform Bill, the beginnings of railways and the death of King George IV.\u00a0 Virginia Woolf once said that <em>Middlemarch<\/em>, &#8220;is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other novels by George Eliot include <em>Adam Bede<\/em>, <em>The Mill on the Floss<\/em>, <em>Silas Marner<\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Romola<\/em>, <em>Daniel Deronda <\/em>as well as <em><em>Felix Holt, the Radical<\/em><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts\u2014not to hurt others.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Middlemarch\">Middlemarch<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=George%20Eliot\">George Eliot<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Novels by George Eliot<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Adam Bede<\/li>\n<li>The Mill on the Floss<\/li>\n<li>Silas Marner<\/li>\n<li>Romola<\/li>\n<li>Felix Holt, the Radical<\/li>\n<li>Middlemarch<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Deronda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More About George Eliot<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=George%20Eliot\">George Eliot Quotes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00EBRTZYK\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00EBRTZYK&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=litquotes-20&amp;linkId=62252WCH7WR6DLVQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">My Life in Middlemarch<\/a><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; 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