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 Hanway for six months together!". Hanway declared in "Ellinor" that "There are very few arts or sciences that women are not capable of acquiring, were they educated with the same advantages as men". Mary Ann Hanway Mary Ann Hanway was an eighteenth-century travel writer and novelist. She has been proposed as the anonymous author of "Journey to the Highlands of Scotland" (1777). Hanway was also the author of "Christabelle, the Maid of Rouen" (1814), in which a woman's father loses their family's fortune, and she joins a nunnery, "Ellinor" (1798), and "Andrew Stuart" (1800). Hanway did not always find the process