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The most critical turning-point in the life of Mary Anne Evans came when she decided to live with George Henry Lewes. But for this she might not have been a novelist, and would never have been known as ‘George Eliot’. She chose ‘George’ for her nom de plume because it was her husband’s name, and ‘Eliot’ because it was ‘a good mouth-filling, easily-pronounced word’.
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Pinion, F.B. (1981). George Eliot’s Life. In: A George Eliot Companion. Macmillan Literary Companions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04256-2_2
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