In 1856, inspired by Lewes’s confidence in her, Eliot began to work on “The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton.” Thus began a highly successful career as a writer of fiction, which was marred only by the difficulties initially caused by Eliot’s living as the wife of a man married to another. They left England in 1854 for an eight-month stay in Germany, during which they read together and fully immersed themselves in the cultural life of that country. In 1853 he and Eliot began a relationship that lasted until Lewes’s death in 1878. In the same year, she met the married George Henry Lewes.
Following her father’s death in 1849, Eliot fully embraced a new life she moved to London, where she began work editing and writing for the radical Westminster Review. In this new intellectual context, Eliot began her translation of Strauss’s Das Leben Jesu (published anonymously in 1846).
In 1828, she became a fervent Evangelical, but when Eliot and her father moved to Coventry in 1841, she encountered the free-thinking Bray family, who initiated in Eliot an intellectual inquiry into the tenets of evangelicalism, which led her to disavow her earlier faith. Eliot’s early life in Warwickshire was crucial to her life as a writer: her surroundings provided her with material and inspiration for her later work and instilled a sense of the importance of memory to the individual’s development. Before she died in 1880, she had become one of the most notable women of the century and one of its leading novelists. George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans in Warwickshire in 1819.
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