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It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

George Eliot

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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Mary Anne Evans
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Marian Evans
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Mary Anne Cross
Middlemarch
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