| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Eliot, George |
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| DATES: | 18191880 |
| VARIANTS: | Pen name of Mary Ann Evans. |
| British writer whose novels, all in the 19th-century realist tradition, include Adam Bede (1859), Silas Marner (1861), and her masterpiece, Middlemarch (18711872).
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