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 Delafield DuBois Mary Ann Delafield DuBois Mary Ann Delafield DuBois (November 6, 1813 — October 27, 1888) was an American sculptor and philanthropist. In 1854 she was co-founder of New York's Nursery and Child's Hospital, and was the hospital's director. Mary Ann Delafield was born in London, the daughter of an American father, John Delafield, and his English wife, Mary Roberts Delafield. Her father, a banker, was in England during the War of 1812, and Mary Ann moved to New York City after her mother died in 1819. She attended the Litchfield Female Academy in 1825. During the Panic of 1837, DuBois