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 G. Evans Evans lived with teacher Harriet Kelley in Indianapolis, Indiana and with Edna Cook during her early years in Chicago. Evans died in 1966, aged 75 years. Mary G. Evans Mary G. Evans (January 13, 1891 – April 12, 1966) was an American Christian minister. Evans is most known for serving as the pastor of Chicago's Cosmopolitan Community Church for thirty four years, from 1932 until her death in 1966. Evans was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Divinity degree from Wilberforce University. Evans was born in Washington, D. C. Orphaned at an early age, she was raised by