About the Author

Mary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator and later editor of the Westminster Review. In 1857, she published SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE, the first of eight novels she would publish under the name of 'George Eliot', including THE MILL ON THE FLOSS, MIDDLEMARCH, and DANIEL DERONDA. A S Byatt is an acclaimed writer, whose novel Possession won the Booker Prize in 1992. She has written many novels, most recently The Whistling Woman, alongside non-fiction.