George Eliot

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), the Warwickshire-born novelist of Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. She also translated Strauss and Feuerbach.

She wrote verse throughout her career, including the dramatic poem The Spanish Gypsy (1868) and the collection The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems (1874); her lines beginning “O, may I join the choir invisible” are among her most famous.