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George Eliot's personal life was as controversial as her heroines were feisty. She lived with her married lover for more than 20 years
Margaret Atwood Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte Peter Carey Wilkie Collins Joseph Conrad Daniel Defoe Charles Dickens George Eliot William Faulkner Henry Fielding EM Forster Elizabeth Gaskell William Golding Alasdair Gray Graham Greene Thomas Hardy Henry James James Joyce
DH Lawrence Ian McEwan Herman Melville Brian Moore Toni Morrison VS Naipaul Ann Radcliffe Samuel Richardson Salman Rushdie JD Salinger Walter Scott Alan Sillitoe Muriel Spark John Steinbeck Laurence Sterne William Thackeray John Updike HG Wells Rebecca West Virginia Woolf