艾略特(1819～1880年)
Eliot, George，原名Mary Ann Evans。
後名Marian Evans
英国小说家，生於瓦立克郡（Warwickshire）。自小受宗教影响很深，为虔诚的福音派信仰者但在二十多岁时与宗教断然决裂。她专心�邮路搿⑵缆郏�1851～1854年担任《威斯敏斯特评论》（Westminster Riview）副总编辑。之後转向写小说，采用男性的笔名，避免大家对女人的偏见，第一部作品是《教区生活场景》（Scenes of Clerical Life, 1858）。後续经典之作包括：《亚当.比德》（Adam Bede, 1859）、《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》（The Mill on the Floss, 1860）、《织工马南》（Silas Marner, 1861）、《罗慕拉》（Romola, 1862～1863）、《菲利克斯.霍尔特》（Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866）和《丹尼尔.狄隆达》（Daniel Deronda, 1876）。杰作《米德镇的春天》（Middlemarch, 1871～1872）提供了对当地社会各个阶层的完整研究。她开创了现代小说通常采用的心理分析的创作方法。她与已婚人士乔治.亨利.路易斯（George Henry Lewes，新闻记者、哲学家和评论家）相恋虽然是丑闻，但他们共享了一段长期的幸福时光，他们的周日沙龙是维多利亚式生活璀灿的一面。
English version：
1819～1880年
Eliot, George
British novelist. Born in Warwickshire, she was raised with a strong evangelical piety, but broke with religious orthodoxy in her twenties. She worked as a translator, a critic, and a subeditor of the Westminster Review (1851-54). Later she turned to fiction. Adopting a masculine pseudonym to evade prejudice against women, she first brought out Scenes of Clerical Life (1858). This was followed by such classic works as Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862-63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), and Daniel Deronda (1876). Her masterpiece, Middlemarch (1871-72), provides a thorough study of every class of provincial society. The method of psychological analysis she developed would become characteristic of modern fiction. With the journalist, philosopher, and critic George Henry Lewes (1817-1878), a married man, she enjoyed a long and happy, though scandalous, liaison; their Sunday-afternoon salons were a brilliant feature of Victorian life.