George Eliot literary work ever written. In 2015, writers from outside the UK voted it first among all British novels "by a landslide". The various film and television adaptations of Eliot's books have re-introduced her to the wider reading public. George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, including "Adam Bede" (1859), "The Mill on the Floss" (1860), "Silas Marner" (1861), "Romola" (1862–63), "Middlemarch" (1871–72),
Mary Ann Mantell Mary Ann Mantell Mary Ann Mantell ("née" Woodhouse; 1799 – 1847 or 9 April 1795 – ) is credited with the discovery of the first fossils of "Iguanodon", and provided several pen and ink sketches of the fossils for her husband, Gideon Mantell's, scientific description of "Iguanodon". In 1822, while Mary Ann Mantell was accompanying her husband to Surrey as he was visiting a patient, she discovered large tooth-shaped fossils on the side of the road. She presented these fossils to him. Her husband then proceeded to send Mary’s findings to Georges Cuvier, who then initially thought the teeth that