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    Who wrote under the pen name George Eliot?

    Question #87737. Asked by katloukop. (Oct 25 07 6:02 AM)


    stuthehistoryguy

    		Mary Anne Evans

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot

    Oct 25 07, 8:58 AM
    McGruff

    		From Mary Anne Evans to George Eliot

    Mary Anne then adopted George Eliot as her nom de plume. She later told John Cross that she chose the name because "George was Mr. Lewes's Christian name, and Eliot was a good mouth-filling, easily pronounced word" (Cross I, 310).

    http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/projects/eliot/middlemarch/bio.html

    Under the section titled "George Eliot is Born."

    Oct 25 07, 9:00 AM

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