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Which name did George Eliot use before adopting her pen name?
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George Eliot
George Eliot, engraving derived from a chalk drawing (1865) by Sir Frederic William Burton.
Before adopting her famous pen name, the British author George Eliot was born and known as Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans.12