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Which famous novelist wrote "Middlemarch" and "Silas Marner"?
AJane Austen
BCharlotte Brontë
CGeorge Eliot ✓
DElizabeth Gaskell
Explanation
George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans, 1819–1880) wrote "Middlemarch" and "Silas Marner". She used a male pen name because female authors were not always taken seriously in the 19th century.
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