Born in 1819, died in 1880; assistant editor of the
_Westminster Review_ in 1851; lived with George Henry Lewes
from 1854 until his death in 1878; married John W. Cross in
1880; translated Strauss's "Life of Jesus" in 1846,
published "Scenes of Clerical Life" in 1858, "Adam Bede" in
1859, "Romola" in 1862, "Middlemarch" in 1871, "Daniel
Deronda" in 1876.