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
Ann Harriet Hughes left a fourth unfinished work. She also edited Welsh versions of three of the works of the Scottish evangelist Henry Drummond and wrote verse in Welsh. She edited the woman's page in the "Welsh Weekly" (1892), "Yr Eryr" (1894–95) "Y Cymro" (1906–07). Ann Harriet Hughes died on 25 April 1910 at Pwllheli. She was buried in the graveyard of the Llanfihangel-y-traethau church. Ann Harriet Hughes Ann Harriet Hughes (1852 – 25 April 1910) was a Welsh language novelist, under the pen-name Gwyneth Vaughan. Ann Harriet Hughes was born at Talsarnau in Merionethshire, the daughter of a miller, and had a