George Eliot
novelist · Warwickshire, England · London · 1819–1880
Born Mary Ann Evans, she published her novels under a man's name. She wrote at length and in depth about how ordinary people in country towns live.
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1871
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
Middlemarch, chapter 20
1872
for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
Middlemarch, the last sentence
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