In 1853 Eliot’s friend Herbert Spencer introduced her to George Henry Lewes, one of the founders of the radical weekly The Leader.

Settling in London in 1851, she exercised further intellectual influence as subeditor of The Westminster Review. Strauss and would later translate the works of theologians Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach and Baruch Spinoza. In 1846 she translated the work of the radical biblical scholar D. The strong evangelical piety inculcated in her during childhood would stay with her until she encountered the ideas of the freethinker Charles Bray and his circle in the 1840s. George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Anne Evans) was born November 22, 1819, at South Farm, Arbury, Warwickshire, as the third child of land agent Robert Evans and Christiana Evans. The novel traces the fate of high ideals in an English provincial town, as focused in the consciousness of a young woman.Įvents in History at the Time of the NovelĮvents in History at the Time the Novel Was Written A novel set in an English provincial town between 18 written in 1869-72 published in bimonthly and monthly installments from 1871-72.

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