George Eliot
Born: 11-21-1819
George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, was a renowned 19th-century English novelist celebrated for her deep psychological insights and vivid character portrayals. Her works, including "Middlemarch" and "Silas Marner," explore themes of social change, morality, and human relationships. Eliot's writing is distinguished by its rich realism and nuanced exploration of Victorian society, making her a pivotal figure in literary history.
Book summaries for books written by George Eliot
Quotes
It is one thing to be idle and feel idle, and quite another to be idle and feel active.
Our life is determined for us—and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us and doing what is given us.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
That is the lot of all women. They learn to believe in half measures.
Some mortals are privileged to dwell in a world made of stories, and the spiral staircase that connects heaven and earth is made of words.
We are all of us failures—at least, the best of us are.
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
It's not our talents that make us dear to other people. It's our vulnerabilities.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life? To strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.