Felix Holt, The Radical

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Felix Holt, the Radical is a societal story of political disagreements in a little English village during the time of the First Reform Act of 1832.

Mary Anne Evans also known as Mary Ann or Marian, who frequently uses the pseudonym George Eliot, was a British writer, poet, journalist, translator and among the primary authors of the Victorian period. She is the writer of seven books such as Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, many of which are situated in local England and identified for their practicality and psychological outlook.

She made use of a male pseudonym, she stated, to make sure that her novels would be taken earnestly. Female writers were printed using their real names at the time of Mary Ann’s life, but she needed to run off the typecast of women creating only carefree love stories. She also wanted to have her stories critiqued differently from her already broad and generally known writing as an editor and critic. An added aspect in her use of a pseudonym might have been a wish to protect her personal life from public enquiry and to avoid humiliations from her love affair with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she cohabited for more than 20 years.

Mary Ann Evans was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. She was the daughter of Robert Evans and Christiana Pearson Evans, the daughter of a provincial mill-owner. Her complete siblings were Christiana, also called as Chrissey, Isaac and twin brothers who lived only for a number of days. She also had a half-brother, Robert, and half-sister, Fanny, from her father’s first marriage to Harriet Poynton. Robert Evans, of Welsh lineage, was the manager of the Arbury Hall Estate for the Newdigate family in Warwickshire, and Mary Ann was born on the manor at South Farm.
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