Novelist, journalist and translator Mary Ann Evans, better known, of course, by her pen name George Eliot, is remembered primarily for Middlemarch, praised by Virginia Woolf as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”. Yet the Victorian writer wrote seven novels in total, as well as short stories and poems that deserve a look-in too – Eliot’s biographer Clare Carlisle suggests some good places to start.
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