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1819 – 1880George Eliot (1819-1880)Died 22 December 1880, aged 61George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, an English novelist whose works include Middlemarch and Silas Marner. She died in London on 22 December 1880, a few months after marrying John Cross. Her fiction is noted for its psychological depth and realism.