Novelist George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, in 1819. In 1851 Evans moved to London hoping to become a freelance writer. She worked as a subeditor at The Westminster Review, wrote essays, and translated German. In 1858 she published her first novel, Scenes of Clerical Life, under the pen name George Eliot. Her first long novel, Adam Bede (1859), went through eight printings in a year. She later published several works that became classics of English literature, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Middlemarch (1871–72).
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