George Eliot
She used a male pen name in Victorian England. This topic is part of Authors within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 6 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
George Eliot trivia questions
George Eliot was the pen name of which writer?
Answer: Mary Ann Evans
Bonus fact: She used a male pen name in Victorian England.
Which George Eliot novel portrays life in a provincial English town?
Answer: Middlemarch
Bonus fact: Middlemarch is often ranked among the greatest English novels.
Why did Mary Ann Evans use the name George Eliot?
Answer: To be taken seriously and separate her fiction from prevailing assumptions about women writers
Bonus fact: The pseudonym helped her literary career.
Who wrote Silas Marner?
Answer: George Eliot
Bonus fact: George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.
Who wrote the historical novel "Romola"?
Answer: George Eliot
Bonus fact: "George Eliot" was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.
Who wrote the novel "Felix Holt, the Radical"?
Answer: George Eliot
Bonus fact: George Eliot used the novel to explore politics, class, inheritance, and social reform.