George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans was born in 1819 on a farm estate in Warwickshire, England, where her father was the estate manager. She was a serious and studious girl, deeply religious in her youth, but in her twenties she came to doubt Christian doctrine, which strained her relationship with her father. She translated David Friedrich Strauss's Life of Jesus from German and moved to London, where she became an editor of the Westminster Review. In 1854 she began living with the writer George Henry Lewes, who was married but separated from his wife and unable to obtain a divorce; their relationship caused a scandal, but they lived together until his death. Encouraged by Lewes, she began writing fiction under the name George Eliot. Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner (1861), about a lonely weaver whose life is changed by an orphaned child, and Middlemarch (1871–1872), a broad portrait of life in a provincial town, are admired for their wisdom and psychological depth. She married John Cross in 1880 and died in London later that year.

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Faith: Taught by an evangelical teacher as a girl; as a young woman she questioned and gave up her religious faith, to her father's anger. Source: Wikipedia