Hourly History
ASIN: B08P223W9R
Publisher: (November 22, 2020)
Pages: 49
Discover the remarkable life of George Eliot...Free BONUS Inside!George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans in the same year as Queen Victoria. At the time, the role of women was well-defined and limited to providing a home to a husband and children. Mary Ann might have lived a traditional Victorian-era life had she been pretty and ornamental. The truth is, her lack of looks made her doubt whether a man would want her. When she didn’t attract attention with her looks, however, she made use of her remarkable intelligence. By her early twenties, she translated articles from Latin and French into English and wrote her own reviews for a radical magazine. In her early thirties, she met the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she would live for the next 24 years. While Lewes suffered only minor social consequences for this arrangement, Mary Ann was ostracized from acceptable circles for years. ...