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History & Biography Archives - November 2015

George Eliot (November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880)

Published November 19, 2015 Submitted by: Jenny

The acclaimed author of such classics as "Silas Marner," "The Mill on the Floss," and "Middlemarch" (which Virginia Woolf called "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people") would have turned 196 this weekend. More

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