El ‧ i ‧ ot, George /ˈeliət/ BrE AmE
(1819–80) an British woman writer, whose real name was Mary Ann or Marian Evans. She is generally considered to have written some of the greatest English novels, including ↑ Middlemarch , The Mill on the Floss , and Silas Marner . Her novels give a detailed picture of many different characters at all levels of English society.