Mark Schuler: George Eliot

Artist: Mark Schuler
1951 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1980
Image Size: 8.625 by 11.5 inches
Overall Size: 15 by 17 inches
Medium: Mixed Media on Hot Press Illustration Board

In an age when female authors were restricted in their literary achievements, Mary Ann Evans assumed the pen name "George Eliot" to conceal her gender. Born the daughter of an estate manager, Mary Ann's education was a conventional one for the day. However, in her twenties, she encountered a group of freethinkers and underwent a radical change in her beliefs. Under the influence of individuals who considered the sacred scriptures merely as human and historical documents, she published her translation of the Life of Jesus and the Essence of Christianity. In 1851, Mary Ann became an editor for the rationalist and reformist journal Westminster Review. In this position, she met many of the leading intellectuals of her day. It was during this time that Mary Ann turned her brilliant mind from scholarly writing to creative work. In 1857 with the publication of her short story "Amos Barton," Mary Ann first assumed her legendary pen name, George Eliot. Her first novel Adam Bede followed which led to a virtual flood of great works. Though her literary contributions to this time were many, her greatest work was still to be written. This novel, Middlemarch, is a comprehensive view of human life which has the breadth of Leo Tolstoy's famous War and Peace. Eight years after publication of this masterwork, Mary Ann Evans died. At the time of her death in 1880, she was well established as an English literary great under the pen name George Eliot.

This artwork was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the Great Britain Europa stamp featured in the 1980 Portraits of Greatness collection.

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