![]() ![]() ![]() The Wikipedia contributors also give a capsule account of her remarkable transformation from provincial girl-she was born Mary Ann Evans, the daughter of a land agent, in Coventry in 1819-to one of the preëminent intellectuals of the nineteenth century, and the author of “Middlemarch,” widely considered the greatest novel in the English language. It does say that “she was considered to have an ill-favoured appearance, and she formed a number of embarrassing, unreciprocated emotional attachments.” Of course, that’s only a fraction of what it says about her. Thesis: she was ugly AND horny!”Īlas, for the prurient-minded, Eliot’s wiki-biography is rather more elliptical in its characterization of the Victorian author. If George Eliot’s Wikipedia entry has received an unusually high number of views this week, the responsibility lies with Lena Dunham, who tweeted a couple of days ago that the Victorian novelist’s page was “the soapiest most scandalous thing you’ll read this month. ![]()
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