In 1819 George Eliot was born
As Mary-Anne Evans, for she was not
A man, but came up with the nom-de-plume
So literary sexism could be offset
For a serious writer could be upset
By that kind of thing, do her work real harm
By not being read or published, a regret
That would kill the muse. Grew up on a farm
In the Midlands, views too modern for some
On religion and lifestyle. She was scorned
For not being a looker. Then she got
With a married man, causing some alarm
She spent time in Geneva, then went on
And up, for it was Middlemarch she wrote
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