Not
far from the "Marx & Spencer" lies Mary Ann Cross née
Evans, also known as "George Eliot".
Eliot used a male pen-name to have
her works taken seriously. Eliot wasn't the sort to
write about romance, marital bliss, matchmaking and picnics
in the park.
Her best-known works are Middlemarch and Silas
Marner. The one that touched me the most is The
Mill on the Floss, which tells of the tempestuous relationship
between Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom.
Eliot had a strained relationship
with her brother because of her involvement with a married
man. In the last chapter of the novel, during a flood, Maggie
and Tom drown while trying to save each other.
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Creative Vandals (February 2007)
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City (September
2007)
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