Whose real name was Mary Anne Evans ?

Correct answer: C. George Eliot

  • A. Jane Austen
  • B. Charlotte Bronte
  • C. George Eliot
  • D. Joseph Conrad

Explanation

Mary Anne Evans used the pen name George Eliot, under which she wrote major Victorian novels such as “Middlemarch” and “Silas Marner.” The male name helped her work receive serious literary attention in a male-dominated publishing culture.

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