![]() and thus her literary career began that touches skies when Middlemarch was published. Under the guidance of Lewes, she wrote her first novel The Sad Fortunes of Reverend Amos Baiton in 1857 A.D. He was already married and could not divorce his wife although they were living separately. Both Marry Evan and Lewes were severely criticised, still, they decided to live with each other.īeing well aware of the fact that her controversial affair with Lewes as well as her gender would become an obstacle to her writing career she started publishing her works with her pen name George Eliot.Īnother reason for using the pseudonym was that she wanted to escape the stereotype women writing that was limited to light-hearted romances. The controversy in her life started when she went to London after her father’s death and started living with George Henry Lewes in a living relationship. At the age of 16, her mother died and was forced to leave school. ![]() ![]() From a very early age, she was quite intelligent and thus her father provided her private education which the other females of her time did not usually get. ![]()
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