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| | George Eliot |
 | | Evans attended church, out of respect for her family, only until her father died in 1849, but concluded of Christianity, "It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious." |
 | | Then, in 1851, Evans joined the staff of the Westminster Review, wrote many book reviews, and joined a circle of brilliant Victorian writers, including George Henry Lewes, who would be her companion his wife was mentally ill, so he could not marry until Lewes's death. |
 | | George Eliot became known to the world in her succeeding novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1863), and Daniel Deronda (1876). |
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