UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: George Eliot (1819-1880) pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Important British novelist. Author of 'Adam Bede', 'Silas Marner', 'The Mill on the Floss', 'Romola',' Felix Holt', Middlemarch', 'Daniel Deronda', etc. Eliot as a young woman, after the portrait by F d'A Durade. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)