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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
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Birth: | 22nd November, 1819 |
Death: | 22nd December, 1880 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Novelist, Translator |
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. She was an English novelist and translator. She wrote several novels include: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. In fact, her first major literary work was an English translation of Strauss's The Life of Jesus, which she completed after it had been left incomplete by another member of the "Rosehill Circle".
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