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In 1850-1856, living in London, she developed herself as a writer of essays and as a contributing editor of The Westminister Review a political journal, she wrote of the need for realism not trivial romance fluff in women's storytelling.
In 1858, she took the male pen name George Eliot to protect her private life and be ensured her works would be taken seriously. Women writers were not uncommon but she wanted to stand out as she developed her novels.
Some of her literacy works include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), and Middlemarch (1871-72) and Daniel Dermonda (1876).
In 1880, at the age of 61, she fell ill and died of kidney disease. In 1980, a century later, a memorial stone was established for her in the Poets Corner of Highgate Cemetery in London.
Which brings me to writing of Mary Anne Evans aka George Eliot today.
She was a women of her time, however, knew she wanted to give women a stronger position in a man's world. Her writings would tell stories of influence, power, religion and politics similar to a Greek tragedy. She is well known for her quote, "it's never too late to be what you might have been," leads me to believe in her final years as a writer she had more to share with world.
In the right times, could she have been our first women president? a secretary of state? a prime minister? a queen of her country?
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