The novel was published serially in eight parts in 1871. Abandoning it, she began a short novella entitled Miss Brooke which was eventually integrated into the final version of Middlemarch. Her first attempt to write Middlemarch, her most famous novel, ended in failure. In 1857 Eliot published Amos Barton in Blackwood's Magazine and in 1859 her novel Adam Bede was published to great acclaim. Lewes was already married, although he and his wife both considered their relationship to be an open one, but he and Eliot set up home together, much to the dismay of polite London society. She also met George Henry Lewes this year and they became partners for the rest of his life. After her father's death she became the Assistant Editor of the Westminster Review in 1851. She later moved to Coventry with her father. She was sent away to school but returned when her mother died in 1836. Baptized Mary Anne Evans, Eliot chose to write using a male pen name. GEORGE ELIOT was born in Nuneaton on November 22, 1819.
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