These recent acquisitions include a first editions of Scenes of Clerical Life, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. Richard Newsome and his wife Jerome, in honor of Professor of English and Provost emeritus Edwin G. ZSR Special Collections and Archives has recently added several important works to our Eliot collection, thanks to a generous donation of funds by WFU alumni Dr. As George Eliot, she changed the landscape of 19 th century literature, illuminating the inner lives of her characters as their moral decisions drove her stories, and transforming the novel into a genre that demanded respect from the literary establishment. We know her better as George Eliot, the nom de plume she adopted when she began to publish works of fiction in her late 30s. On this day 200 years ago the third child of an estate manager was born in rural Warwickshire, England and christened Mary Anne Evans.
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