![]() Inspired by him, in 1857, she wrote Scenes from Clerical Life. Poverty and misfortune dogged them for a while, but Lewes recognised her superior intellect and encouraged her with praise and devotion. She then met George Henry Lewes, and defying Victorian convention, lived with him for the rest of her life. She later came into contact with thinkers like Francis Newman, Herbert Spencer and was deeply influenced by their philosophy. At the age of twenty-two, she went with her father to Coventry, and soon began to free herself from the narrow religious outlook which bound her family. ![]() From childhood, she showed an unusual aptitude for study and was far ahead of her brother in academic achievements. Mary Ann Evans, better known as George Eliot, was born in Warwickshire, in 1819 and spent the early years of her life with her father an estate agent, and her brother, Isaac. ![]()
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