![]() ![]() During her life with Lewes, Evans suffered the disapproval of her older brother Isaac, who cut off all contact with her. ![]() The two eloped to the Continent in 1854, then lived together as husband and wife until Lewes death in 1878. ![]() Knowing this, Evans and Lewes pursued their relationship anyway. Contemporary marriage law prevented Lewes from obtaining a divorce from his adulterous wife the law held that, having condoned the adultery previously, he now had no grounds for divorce. In 1850 Evans moved to London where she worked as a translator and editor, and fell in love with the writer and editor George Henry Lewes, a married man. Born in 1819 to a prosperous estate manager, Marian Evans spent her youth much as her heroine did, in reading and outdoor activities. The Mill on the Floss was the second novel Marian Evans published under the pseudonym George Eliot. ![]()
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