George Eliot

Great 19th century author of 'Middlemarch', 'Silas Marner', 'The Mill on the Floss'.

Connection: Welsh father, attended Welsh Baptist School in Coventry. She was actually born in Warwickshire.

		silas marner after he is wrongly accused of a crime and expelled from his community, weaver silas marner becomes a miser and a recluse. a strange sequence of events, and the appearance of a small child, transforms his life in this realistic tale of rural life, and symbolic drama of sin and repentance. click for availability!

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link by: Mizoguchi
more information at the Victorian web
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