Author: George Eliot

 

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot

First Lines: George Eliot - Daniel Deronda

 

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

First Lines: George Eliot - Middlemarch

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

First Lines: George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss

A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace.