The Lifted Veil | Critical Overview
After years spent as a journal editor, critical essayist and translator of the books of others, Eliot’s unoffi- cial husband, George Henry Lewes, encouraged her to try her hand at fiction. In 1857, she first assumed the penname George Eliot, and began to write her first novel, Adam Bede, which was published in 1859. Adam Bede brought Eliot immediate critical acclaim, suggesting to some critics that she posed a challenge in literary accomplishment even to the well-established Charles Dickens. Close on the heals of Adam Bede, Eliot published her second novel The...
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