Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
George Eliot
Born: November 22, 1819
Died: December 22, 1880 (aged 61)
Bio: Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
Known for:
- Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (1852)
- The Mill on the Floss (1860)
- Adam Bede (1859)
- Silas Marner (1861)
- Daniel Deronda (1876)
George Eliot Quotes