Show ft JOTS FROM MARY ANN EVANS or Eliot as she one of literatures literature's outstanding women writers At the ge of 13 upon the death of her mother she was taken from school to supervise her fathers father's fath- fath ers er's house She independently learned German Italian and Greek thereafter At the age of 22 she married a man who had not received a divorce from a former wife but mutually agreeing to balk society they lived happily to gether for 24 years Perhaps her herbest best works were Adam Bede on the FIos and Silas Marner |