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 Ann Winkowski Mary Ann Winkowski Mary Ann Winkowski is a television personality whose claims of paranormal experiences are the basis for CBS's "Ghost Whisperer", on which she is also a paid producer. She currently resides in North Royalton, Ohio. Winkowski is often paid to attend funerals to help relatives allegedly have one last conversation with a loved one. Her books include "As Alive, So Dead" () and "When Ghosts Speak" (). The actor Jamie Kennedy, of Ghost Whisperer, said ""I really don't believe in all this ghost stuff. I'm just happy to be paid"." Winkowski and Kennedy have what Kennedy calls a