English literature Victorian England. George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), was a major novelist of the mid-Victorian period. Her works, especially "Middlemarch" (1871–72), are important examples of literary realism, and are admired for their combination of high Victorian literary detail, with an intellectual breadth that removes them from the narrow geographic confines they often depict. George Meredith (1828–1909) is best remembered for his novels "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel" (1859), and "The Egoist" (1879). "His reputation stood very high well into" the 20th-century but then seriously declined. An interest in rural matters and the changing social and economic situation
Mary Ann Hutton and in 1933 was awarded an honorary degree of D.Litt. by the National University of Ireland. Hutton died at her home at 30 William's Place Upper, Dublin on 29 August 1953. She is buried in Deans Grange Cemetery. The National Library of Ireland holds some of her correspondence. Hutton was one of the women that were the subject of the BBC Two Northern Ireland programme, "Mná na nGlinntí" (Women of the Glens). Mary Ann Hutton Mary Ann or Margaret Hutton (née Drummond; 1862 – 29 August 1953) was an Irish language scholar and writer. Mary Ann Hutton was born Mary