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George Eliot is best known for Middlemarch, but she also wrote an early work of science fiction

Written by Jessica Murray, Lecturer, The University of Western Australia

George Eliot – the pen name of Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans – is celebrated today as a writer of realist novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Middlemarch (1871) and Daniel Deronda (1876).

We don’t tend to associate her with science fiction. But in 1859, as she was embarking on her career as a novelist,...

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