Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Major Victorian novelist, poet, and translator. Pseudonym: “George Eliot.” Regular contributor to and effective editor of the Westminster Review (1851-1856). Lover of the married writer George Henry Lewes from c. late 1852, with whom she lived openly from 1854. Married John Walter Cross on 6 May 1880, after the death of Lewes. Author of poetry volumes The Spanish Gypsy (1868) and The Legend of Jubal (1874). Biographical information: ODNB. (AC)