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George Eliot

George Eliot (1819–1880), novelist (real name Mary Ann Evans).
The 88th most frequently quoted source in the OED, with a total of 3498 quotations (about 0.11% of all OED quotations).
See article in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Total number of quotations3498Find quotations
Quotations providing first evidence of a word137Find quotations
Quotations providing first evidence of a particular meaning475Find quotations
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5.Middlemarch37911.0%Find quotations in OED
6.Let.2166.0%Find quotations in OED
7.Silas Marner1865.0%Find quotations in OED
8.Mill on Floss1504.0%Find quotations in OED
9.Theophrastus Such1284.0%Find quotations in OED
10.George Eliot's Life913.0%Find quotations in OED

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