The Psychological, Social, Political, Moral and Religious Upheavals in the Novels of George Eliot

Pages:66-67
Sandeep Gill (Department of English, Govt. College, Meham, Rohtak, Haryna)

George Eliot has legitimately been called the first English novelist who introduced Psychology in her fiction. Although born in Victorian Period, Eliot established a new concept of writing, mixed psychology with realism of her childhood and adulthood memories under the pen name George Eliot. In the Victorian Era the female authors were published under their own names during Eliot’s life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. She also wished to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years.