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Marriage, Middlemarch & male pseudonyms: George Eliot’s unconventional life

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The Marriage Question by George Elliot

George Elliot wrote about ordinary people, lower middle class or middle class English people. Her first novels are set in this kind of middle England, quite obscure setting. She just was interested in human emotions and relationships. But at the same time she also herself was a staggering intellectual figure.

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