Summary of the poem making life worthwhile
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Born Mary Anne Evans in 1819, George Eliot was one of the most acclaimed novelists, journalists and translators of the Victorian era. Publishing seven novels over the course of her writing career, Eliot's stories were celebrated for their realism and psychological insight, bringing provincial England to life in literature.
Eliot adopted a male pen name in order to be taken seriously and escape the prevailing stereotype of the time that women wrote only lighthearted romances. She wrote about this in a piece for the Westminster Review called Silly Novels by Lady Novelists (1856). It also served to keep her private life from public scrutiny, in particular her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes.
As a young girl Eliot was a voracious reader and showed clear signs of intelligence. Unusual for the time, her father invested in her education, though this was not purely due to her intelligence - Eliot was not considered to be physically beautiful and therefore her chances of marriage were thought to be slim. She attended a boarding school from ages five to nine but she returned home after her mother's death and from age 16 her education came primarily from exploration of the Arbury Hall library on the estate her father managed in Warwickshire.
These regular visits to the estate also gave Eliot the opportunity to see firsthand the contrast in the wealth and living conditions of the local landowner and the poorer people living on the estate which would influence much of her future writing.
A close association with a progressive, free-thinking family called the Brays opened new doors to Eliot, introducing people who held and debated radical and liberal views, including famous literary figures such as Harriet Martineau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Eliot had struggled with her religious beliefs for years but did not publicly give up her faith until after her father's death in 1849. She travelled to Switzerland with the Brays and decided to stay on alone in Geneva, reading extensively and enjoying the natural beauty of the area.
When she returned to England the following year it was with the intention of becoming a writer under the name Marian Evans, staying with John Chapman, who she had met through the Brays. She became assistant editor at The Westminster Review under Chapman though she is thought to have managed most of the running of the journal herself.