Silas Marner and Eppie are able to retreat from the business of Lantern Yard to the quiet, unchanged world of Raveloe. At the end of Silas Marner, the Industrial Revolution has transformed the village of Lantern Yard into a fast-paced manufacturing hub. This transition resulted in the development of mills and manufacturing towns throughout England. The advancing technology allowed goods, such as woven cotton products, to be produced more quickly and on a larger scale. The Industrial Revolution is the time period in which the production of basic goods transitioned from hand production methods to production by new machines.
By the 1830s and 1840s, the Industrial Revolution and the economic changes it caused were prevalent throughout England. Silas Marner, as a weaver, lives during the early years of the 19th century when individual weavers made profits in England. Lewes’s death in 1878 left her devastated, and while she married John Cross in May of 1880, she died later that year after a brief illness.Īs mentioned above, the Victorian Era, with its emphasis on Christianity, morality, and social values provides a backdrop to Eliot’s novel. She published her major works during Lewes’s lifetime, including Scenes of Clerical Life (1857), Adam Bede (1859), Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1872), and Daniel Deronda (1876). Her personal life received attention and gossip due to her relationship with a married man named George Henry Lewes with whom she lived for more than twenty years.
She began publishing essays, writing under the pen name George Eliot in order to escape the stereotype of her day that women wrote romances. In London, she started working as an editorial assistant for The Westminster Review. She decided to move to London and begin a career as a writer. When Mary Anne moved to Coventry at age twenty-one, she befriended Charles Bray at whose home she was exposed to a circle of intellectuals and freethinkers. Her writing was also impacted by the diverse lives and lifestyles she observed on the Arbury Estate, from those of the wealthy landowners to those of the poorer workers farming the land. After she finished school at age sixteen, she continued learning by reading: she had access to the library at Arbury Hall, and her knowledge of Classical literature deeply affected her later writing. Her father was the estate’s land agent, received a good education during her youth.
Mary Anne Evans grew up on Arbury Estate in Warwickshire, England, where she grew up on one of the estate’s farms.
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