George Elliott 2 Book Set Daniel DeRonda and Felix Holt

The publisher, The Mershon Company, operated from 1893 to 1904.  Books have been in the family since purchased.  Gold leaf in excellent shape.  Few creases on any pages.  Yellowed with age.  Quality paper and printing.   Two-book set of Daniel Deronda, her most famous novel and Felix Holt and Poems.  (200 pages of poems.) 

George Eliot was the pseud. of Mary Ann or Marian Evans, who lived from 1819–80, English novelist, b. Arbury, Warwickshire, during the Victorian era when other famous women writers used men's names in order to get published.

One of the great English novelists, she was reared in a strict atmosphere of evangelical Protestantism but eventually rebelled and renounced organized religion totally. Her early schooling was supplemented by assiduous reading, and the study of languages led to her first literary work, Life of Jesus (1846), a translation from the German of D. F. Strauss. After her father's death she became subeditor (1851) of the Westminster Review, contributed articles, and came to know many of the literary people of the day. In 1854 she began a long and happy union with G. H. Lewes, which she regarded as marriage, though it involved social ostracism and could have no legal sanction because Lewes's estranged wife was living. Throughout his life Lewes encouraged Evans in her literary career; indeed, it is possible that without him Evans, subject to periods of depression and in constant need of reassurance, would not have written a word.