<p>Middlemarch: Complete Eight Books By George Eliot, first published in 1874. Mary Ann Evans (1819?1880, also "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.<br><br>Middlemarch, is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes. During the f...