British literature best-loved works are set in the imaginary west country county of Barsetshire, including "The Warden" (1855) and "Barchester Towers" (1857). Trollope's novels portray the lives of the landowning and professional classes of early Victorian England. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans (1819–80) was a major novelist of the mid-Victorian period. Her works, especially "Middlemarch" 1871-2), 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, that has led to comparisons with Tolstoy. George Meredith (1828–1909) is best remembered for
Mary Evans "Sonnet: To my Own Heart," which he published in his "three earlier and three later collections, as well as in "Sonnets from Various Authors" and has also received the title "On a Discovery Made to Late". The poem was also included in letters to Robert Southey and Francis Wrangham in October, 1794, and he inserts several of the lines into a response letter to Evans in early November, after hearing of her engagement plans. Coleridge and Evans met again for the last time in 1808. Coleridge dedicated his poem "The Sigh" (1794) to Mary Evans, who is mentioned by name