I . George Eliot
(1819–80)
the man’s name that the English author Mary Ann Evans used on her books. Her works include Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Her books give a remarkable picture of Victorian social and domestic life. She was unusual for her time in living for many years with a man, George Henry Lewes, without getting married. He died in 1878 and shortly before her own death she married a man 20 years younger than her.
II . T S Eliot
( Thomas Stearns Eliot 1888–1965)
a British poet, writer of plays, and literary critic, born in the US. Ezra Pound encouraged him to live in England, where from 1914 he made his home. Eliot’s poems have had a great influence on other poets, particularly The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1944). One of his most important new ideas was to use the natural rhythms of speech in his poetry. His best-known plays are Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1951). In 1948 he was given the Nobel Prize for literature.