![]() ![]() Her books, short tales, and poems impacted many people and sparked debate on women’s role in a patriarchal culture and her courage in standing up for her beliefs in Victorian times. George Eliot’s legacy will help future generations. Cross, Mary Ann died on December 22, 1880. Until Lewes’ death in 1878, the couple lived together legally but not otherwise. After being unable to divorce, Lewes and Mary Ann defied social norms and stayed married. Via Spencer, she met divorced theatre critic and writer George Henry Lewes. She became Chapman’s Westminster Review’s assistant editor in 1851. Mary Ann cared for her crippled father until his death in 1849, who strongly opposed her new religion. She also wrote reviews and pieces for a Bray-edited journal. ![]() Mary Ann and her father moved to Coventry after her brother Isaac married and acquired the house in 1841.Īs her intellectual horizons broadened in the city under Charles Hennel and Charles Bray, the young woman’s faith waned. Mary Ann managed her father’s home when her mother died and her sister married. Her father Robert Evans had a company, while her mother Christiana Evans stayed home. Due to her love of books and intellect, her father spent a lot of money on her education, despite his business philosophy. Mary Ann was pious as a child and adolescent due to her upbringing and Miss Lewis’s influence as her boarding school’s “principal mistress” from 1828 to 1832. Mary Ann Evans, Robert and Christina’s youngest child, was born in Warwickshire in 1819. ![]()
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