During the nineteenth century, England was abundant with great novel writers. One of the best of the English writers was George Eliot, who wrote many great novels including the featured book Silas Marner. In her classic work of Silas Marner, George Eliot was said to have done an excellent job of portraying the goodness of love through Irony, besides the fact that her family had rejected her because she transgressed against her British Values.
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) was born at South farm, Arbury in Warwickshire to Robert and Christian Pearson Evans on November 22, 1819 (Wiesenfarth 145). She had four siblings: Robert, Fanny, Chrissy, and Isaac. Mary and Isaac where inseparable, however, he went away to boarding school in 1824. At Miss Latham's, missing her friendship with her brother, Mary Ann first turned to books as a source of amusement. Many said that she was a serious, sensitive, and introspective child. Mathline Blind described her as "a queer, three-cornered, awkward girl, who sat in corners and shyly watched her elders-. From Miss Latham's, Mary was sent to Mrs. Wallington's Boarding School at Nuneaton. It was at Mrs. Wallington's that she met the woman who was the most influential figure in her early life (George 1). .
Mary Ann did not have many influences early in her life. Miss Lewis, a kind woman with strong evangelical beliefs, taught Mary how to study scripture and built her faith in God. Many of her books were based on religious content that she learned from Miss Lewis (Deeds 2). Her parents were well off and religious. Mary's father was a very smart man. She once said, "He raised himself from being an artisan to be a man whose extensive knowledge in very varied practical departments. Made his services valued through several communities. He had a large knowledge of buildings, of mines, of plantations, of various branches of valuation, and measurement of all that is essential to the management of large estates (Wiensenfarth 145).