Mary Evans Research Paper

What may throw you for a loop within this discussion of this author is that “he” is not whom he appears to be, for George Eliot is actually a pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans. Women during the 1800s were really looked at as pretty property, as mentioned earlier. They were not thought to be writers and were also not really accredited for their works; thus, Mary Ann took on this pseudonym to draw in more of a serious eye for her work and give it more credibility. She wished for works to be looked at fairly and on the same playing field as males. Shortly after she began writing, she was ‘found out’ and her true identity was released. Although this brought her a lot of unwanted attention, it, for the most part, did not take away from her sales as an
She attended two schools that contributed significantly to whom she became: Mrs. Wallington’s School at Nuneaton (1828-1832) and her last school (1832-1835). At her first school, she was heavily touched by the principal governess known as Maria Lewis. This woman placed a strong evangelical piety in our young author. Her last school was headed by the daughters of Baptist minister at Coventry. Both of these heavily increased her self-religious awareness as she began to revolve miniscule, everyday things in her life around her religious teachings. She learned several languages with two of them being French and Italian. Her mother died within the latter years of her schooling and this tugged on her to go home to comfort and also look after her father. When she returned home, her father let her have lessons in both Latin and German. The two, along with the rest of the family, moved back to Coventry in
She decided to take a different route with writing beyond editorial. In 1858, “his” second novel, Adam Bede, became a pretty big success. Adam Bede is the story of a carpenter, Adam, who falls in love with an unmarried woman who bears a child by another man. Adam tries to help her, but to no avail, loses her, but ends up happy with another. This story was real big on realism and touched on human characteristics such as sympathy. She would then go on to write major works such as: The Mill on Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871-72), and Danniel Deronda (1876).Within these works, Mary Anne talked about different situations for Women. She spoke of them contrary to the normal standard of living with the man going to work and making decisions while the woman stayed at home and nurtured the children. She wrote stories of women going to work and thinking for themselves, broadcasting their intelligence. I believe this is why male writers around the time referred to her work as “trash”. She went outside of the norm by breaking gender roles, placing strong emphasis on realism, and also placing strong emphasis on human emotion and the human psyche (Paxton