Jane Austen and George Eliot OG25 from Medusa and Medea to

from Medusa and Medea to Helen

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Jane Austen and George Eliot OG25 from Medusa and Medea toIn October1851, a chance meeting in a Piccadilly bookshop changed the course of literaryhistory. For it was here that Mary Ann Evans, an unworldly young scholar, wasintroduced to the love of her life, the critic George Lewes. Encouraged andsupported by Lewes, Evans became the queen of literary London under her penname, George Eliot. In nurturingEliot's talent, Lewes drew inspiration from the works of an unfashionableauthor of the previous generation