George Eliot's Middlemarch and 24 other female author's novels are being released under their real names for the first time

The classic novel Middlemarch is set to be re-published with author George Eliot's real name, Mary Ann Evans, for the first time in almost 150 years.

The novel is one of 25 historic pieces of literature by women, whose work has only ever been released under their male pseudonyms. Evans, more well known as George Eliot, as well as many of the other female authors of her time, adopted their ‘professional’ male names in the mid-19th century to ensure their works […]

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