Middlemarch by Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot’s masterpiece will bear the name of its real author

As part of the ‘Reclaim Her Name’ campaign, a series of books by female authors who used male pen names will be re-released with the writer’s real name.

The books include:

Set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch, Miss Evans’ book focuses on Dorothea’s loveless marriage to the pompous, middle-aged Reverend Casaubon

Middlemarch, by Mary Ann Evans (aka George Eliot)

Marie of the Cabin Club, by Ann Petry (aka Arnold Petri)

Attila, My Attila! by Edith Cooper & Katherine Bradley (aka Michael Field)

A Phantom Lover, by Violet Paget (aka Vernon Lee)

Indiana, by Amantine Aurore Dupin (aka George Sand)

Keynotes, by Mary Bright (aka George Egerton)

A Diplomat’s Diary, by Julia Cruger (aka Julien Gordon)

The History of Sir Richard Calmady, by Mary Kingsley (aka Lucas Malet)

Valeria Aylmer, by Francesa Tiernan (aka Christian Reid)

Some Emotions and a Moral, by Pearl Richards (aka John Oliver Hobbes)

Cecilia de Noel, by Mary Hawker (aka Lanoe Falconer)

Echoes from Mist-Land, by Aubertine Woodward Moore (aka Auber Forestier)

Iras: A Mystery, by Henrietta Everett (aka Theo Douglas)

Twilight, by Julia Frankau (aka Frank Danby)

Ye Game and Playe of Chesse & Other Stories, by Alice Dunbar Nelson (aka Monroe Wright)

Takekurabe ‘Growing Up’, by Natsu Higuchi (aka Ichiyo Higuchi)

The Head of Medusa, by Julia Constance Fletcher (aka George Fleming)

The Life of Martin R. Delany, by Frances Rollin Whipper (aka Frank A. Rollin)

Garden of Kama, by Violet Nicholson (aka Laurence Hope)

Atla: A Story of the Lost Island, by Ann Smith (aka J. Gregory Smith)

For Our Country, by Fatemeh Farahani (aka Shahein Farahani)

The Roadmender, by Margaret Fairless Barber (aka Michael Fairless)

Painted Clay, by Doris Boake Kerr (aka Capel Boake)

The Silence of Dean Maitland, by Mary Tuttiett (aka Maxwell Gray)

How White Men Assist in Smuggling Chinamen Across the Border in Puget Sound Country, by Edith Maude Eaton (aka Mahlton T. Wing)

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