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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
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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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