The name George Eliot was used to publish all of her fictional work and ensured that Eliot's novels were taken seriously. Eliot assured Blackwood - who was at that time unaware of her true identity - that the pen name was necessary to employ 'as a tub to throw to the whale in case of curious enquiries'. The male name was created partly to conceal the gender of the author, and partly to disguise her irregular social position, living as an unmarried woman with a married man. In a letter to her publisher William Blackwood, Evans suggested that the name George Eliot should be assigned to her work in place of her own. George Eliot is the pseudonym created in 1857 by the aspiring writer Marian Evans.
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