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George Eliot
George Eliot, engraving derived from a chalk drawing (1865) by Sir Frederic William Burton.
George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, was the third of five children born to Robert Evans and his second wife, Christiana Evans (née Pearson). Her father, Robert Evans, worked as an estate manager.1