"The Essays of "George Eliot": Complete" by George Eliot Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Through these essays, the writer was able to put her voice and opinions into the world in ways she was unable to with her books. The essays in this book are: Carlyle's Life of Sterling, Woman in France, Evangelical Teaching, German Wit, Natural History of German Life, Silly Novels by Lady Novelists, Worldliness and Other-Worldliness, The Influence of Rationalism, The Grammar of Ornament, and Felix Holt's Address to Workingmen.