Eliot, George (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, also Marian Evans)

1819 – She was born on this year at the estate at South Farm, Arbury, near Nuneaton.

1836 - Her mother died and she returned home to act as housekeeper on this year, but she continued her education with a private tutor and advice from Maria Lewis.

1846 - She completed her first major literary work of David Strauss' Life of Jesus on this year.

1851 – She met the philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes on this year.

1854 – She and George Henry Lewes had decided to live together.

1859 - Her first complete novel, published in this year, was Adam Bede and was an instant success, but it prompted an intense interest in who this new author was.
 

1858 – Her husband died on the 30th day of November this year.

1876 – Her last novel “ Daniel Deronda” was published.

1880 – She was courted controversy once more on the 6th day of May of this year by marrying a man twenty years younger than herself, and again changing her name, this time to Mary Anne Cross.

1880 – She died on the 22nd day  of December of this year because of kidney disease at the age of 61.