This page, maintained by the University of Virginia, provides an amazing biography of Eliot (Evans). From her birth at South Farm, Arbury, in 1819, to her sad and tragic death in 1880, this biography has it all.

The George Eliot Fellowship of Japan
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Eliot.html

This site, maintained by the publisher of The George Eliot Review, is a good resource for the author. Besides offering this fellowship, the purpose of the literary society is "…to gather together admirers of the novelist and to encourage the collection of books, manuscripts, letters, portraits and other articles associated with her for public display." Visit this site and you'll also be treated to a cache of photographs, and an impressive list of Eliot links.

The Victorian Web: George Eliot
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/eliot/eliotov.html

At this critical Website, "The Victorian Web's" George Eliot page is the place to go if you're a big fan of the famous author. Here you'll find a wealth of information from political and social history, to the typological imagery in her "Scenes from Clerical Life."

The Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
http://www.interlog.com/~calex/personal/eliot.html

At this fun page, you'll find first-rate information about the 19th-century author. You can read an Atlantic Monthly review of her "The Mill on the Floss" from June, 1860, or you may choose to browse through many of quotes from her work.

BIOGRAPHY
George Eliot (b. 1819), the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, was born in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire. When her mother died at the age of 17, Evans was forced to stop her schooling and take care of her father. She became largely self-educated at this time, reading many rationalist works that challenged her early Christian upbringing. After her father's death in 1849 she moved to London and became the editor for the Westminster Review. She started writing fiction about her childhood, and in 1858 published the collection of stories Scenes from Clerical Life. Because she lacked confidence in her own writing, she published the book under the name George Eliot. Her popularity continued to grow with the publication of her first novel, Adam Bede (1859), yet her identity remained a secret. When several impostors tried to take credit for Adam Bede, it was finally revealed that Mary Ann Evans was George Eliot. Despite the loss of her anonymity, in the next two years Evans wrote some of her most popular novels, The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861). She continued to write well received novels, including Romola (1863) and Middlemarch Middlemarch(1871-1872), and also published three books of poetry, The Spanish Gypsy (1868), Agatha (1869), and The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems (1874). Evans' work has influenced many great authors ranging from Emily Dickinson to Virginia Woolf, and she is considered one of the earliest feminist writers.