Writer who went through the mill; An unconventional relationship with a married man led to Mary Ann Evans being ostracised from her hometown of Nuneaton. But as novelist George Eliot she returned to it in fiction, celebrating its surrounding villages and her childhood home in her writings, reveals Caroline Foulkes.(Features)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: January 7, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Caroline Foulkes

George Eliot's work is dominated by the scenes of her childhood - and the towns and villages that turned their backs on her once she chose to live openly with a married man.

Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans in 1819 at a farmhouse within the Arbury Hall estate, just outside Nuneaton.

When she was four-months-old her father Robert, who was a land agent for the Newdegate family who owned Arbury, moved the family to Griff House on the edge of the estate.

The family lived there for the ...

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