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"We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it."

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About George Eliot

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, an English novelist and essayist of the Victorian era. Her novels, including Middlemarch, are central works of nineteenth-century English literature.

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