From a simple background in Warwickshire, Eliot's first work was the translation of Strauss's Life of Jesus (1846). She began contributing stories to the Westminster Review in 1850. She also published in Blackwood's Magazine her first novel, Amos Barton, in 1857. This, and the subsequent Mr Gilgil's Love Story and Janet's Repentance, also in Blackwood's, brought her a degree of fame as an author. She published Adam Bede in 1859, The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861) which solidified her position as an author of repute. Eliot travelled to Italy and Spain during the 1860's and both trips stimulated her into work of a high quality. She published Romola in 1862, influenced by her time in Florence, and The Spanish Gypsy in 1868, a dramatic poem. Her finest novels were Middlemarch, published in 1871, and Daniel Deronda (1876). |
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