![]() Her father refused to live with her on those terms, and she went to her brother for three weeks. She soon decided that she could no longer attend church in good faith. As she matured, Evans’ religious beliefs changed, and friends whom she met here further shook her faith in Christianity. In 1841, they moved to a house near Coventry. Miss Lewis, the principal of the second of these schools, was especially influential with her, and it was here that Mary Ann adopted the religious devotion and self-repression that dominated her youth.įollowing the death of her mother and her sister's marriage in 1837, Evans took charge of her father's household. With her sister, Evans attended two boarding schools for girls, where she was strongly influenced by evangelical Christianity. ![]() The plains and hedges of her native region furnish the setting of many of her novels, including Silas Marner. ![]() George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann (later Marian) Evans, who was born in a country house at Nuneaton, Warwickshire, in 1819. ![]()
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