Legacy: The Artists Behind The Legends

Mary Anne Evans, aka Marian, or better yet George Eliot, was a Victorian Era novelist, poet, journalist, and translator, known best for her seven novels including her masterpiece, entitled Middlemarch. Now, for the podcast, I am not going to be referring to Marian as George Eliot because she really only went by George Eliot on paper, so I’ll do my best to establish that early and avoid confusion. After a week of research, I am obsessed with this woman for so many reasons, every one of which I will get to within our allotted timeframe covering Marian’s life, and just to really get you hooked for this week, you should know that she was a true pioneer for female writers. Not only did she write novels that portrayed the multifaceted nature of real life in provincial England, but also threw convention out the door when it came to love no matter how many dinner parties she was shunned from. Her life was a proverbial middle finger to the tight collars of the day, and from an early age she lived her life the way she