Mary Anne Evans was the real name of which famous novelist?
Order of the Phoenix (fictional organisation) Radcliffe, Rowling revealed that Lily Potter's maiden name, Evans, was based on the real name of the author George Eliot, Mary Anne Evans. Lily is portrayed by Geraldine Somerville as an adult in the film series, and by Susie Shinner as a teenager and Ellie Darcey-Alden as a child. Kingsley Shacklebolt is a senior Auror who acts as informer for the Order within the Ministry of Magic. He is first introduced in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", when he volunteers to be one of the members of the Advance Guard that escorted Harry from the Dursleys' home
Anne Evans (poet) and sisters, Sebastian Evans (1830–1909), also wrote poetry. The family moved to Britwell, and in 1829 to Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, where her father became headmaster of Dixie Grammar School. Anne was educated at home. After her father's death in 1854, she moved to 16 Kensington Square in London. In the 1850s she spent some time as a companion, in England and abroad, to the three daughters of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, the eldest being the future novelist Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Anne Evans never married. Her health broke down in 1867 and she remained an invalid until her death on