"What is remarkable, extraordinary – and the process remains inscrutable and mysterious – is that this quiet, anxious, sedentary, serious, invalid, English lady, without animal spirits, without adventures, without extravagance, assumptions, or bravado, should have made us believe that nothing in the world was foreign to it should have produced such rich, profound and masterly pictures of the multifaceted life of man (Henry James in The Atlantic Monthly, May 1885) (Liukkonen)BIOGRAPHY'George; Eliot' was born Mary Ann Evans, to Christiana and Robert Evans, early on November 22, 1819 in Warwickshire, England. She received her education first in a nearby village, then embarked, for a time, first in the lady's school Wallington in Neanton and then in Miss Franklin's school in Coventry. Her education instilled in her a strong sense of faith, based in evangelistic Protestantism. In addition to her formal education in general subjects and in multiple languages, Mary Ann's penchant for the Reading was encouraged by the adults around her from a young age. At the age of nineteen, he had the following to say about his upbringing: “My mind is an assemblage of disjointed examples of history, ancient and modern; fragments of poetry collected by Shakespeare, Cowper, Worth and Milton; newspaper topics; tidbits from Addison and Bacon, Latin verbs, geometry, entomology, and chemistry; Reviews and metaphysics: everything arrested, petrified and suffocated by the rapid daily rush of real events, relative anxieties, worries and domestic vexations. How deplorably and inexplicably evanescent are our moods, as varied as the shapes and colors of summer clouds! (Stephen) Although well-read, she had frustrations with her daily life, finding her calling, and being knowledgeable about a wide range of topics. Robert Evans' continued encouragement of his daughter's passion for knowledge was meaningful