Which Victorian author wrote under the male pen name George Eliot and authored the panoramic provincial masterpiece Middlemarch?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. Mary Ann Evans
- Step 1: Mary Ann Evans adopted the pseudonym George Eliot to ensure her serious realist fiction would be judged on its intellectual merits. Step 2. Her 1871-72 novel Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is widely regarded as one of the finest novels in the English language. Answer: Mary Ann Evans. Why not the others: Elizabeth Gaskell wrote Cranford; Charlotte Brontë wrote Jane Eyre; Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.
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