TheCambridge Introduction to George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans was born on 22 November 1819 at South Farm on the
Newdigate family estate of Arbury Hall near Nuneaton,Warwickshire, in that
central part of England known as the Midlands. Her parents were Christiana
Pearson Evans and Robert Evans. Christiana was Robert Evans’s second wife
andMary Anne’s family included two children from her father’s first marriage
(Robert and Fanny), as well as her sister Chrissey (b. 1814) and brother Isaac
(b. 1816).While second marriages and stepsiblings were common in the nineteenth
century, as today, the basic fact of this extended family is important to
the portrayal of her fictional families, few of which are simple, nuclear families.
Orphans, adopted children, and nieces and nephews living under the care
of relatives occur in all of her novels except The Mill on the Floss (1860). In
Daniel Deronda (1876), for example, Gwendolen Harleth is the daughter of
her mother’s first marriage, and tolerates her younger stepsisters with barely
disguised disdain.
ChristianaPearsonEvans died inFebruary 1836whenMaryAnnewas sixteen
years old. Her health had been poor since the death of twin boys shortly after
their birth in 1821. One

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