- She decided to use a male name because she thought it would persuade people to respect her books.
- Her novel "Middlemarch" has been described as the greatest English Language novel ever written by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes.
- Lived with George Henry Lewes for 23 years.
- Her first novel "Adam Bede" was published when she was forty years old.
- Christopher Hitchens once stated that "there is more morality in a novel by George Eliot than in any of the four gospels".
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