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(ĕlē-ət), George Pen name of Mary Ann Evans. 1819-1880.
(ĕlē-ət), George Pen name of Mary Ann Evans. 1819-1880. British writer whose novels, all in the 19th-century realist tradition, include Adam Bede (1859), Silas Marner (1861), and her masterpiece, Middlemarch (1872).