For ten points, name this Victorian British author whose real name was Mary Ann Evans, the woman behind such novels as Silas Marner and Middlemarch.
In 1880, just months before her death, she changed her surname yet again to Cross after marrying a man twenty years younger than her. She had already taken on a new name once before, because she felt her writing would be taken more seriously that way, and her first novel, Adam Bede, was very well received. For ten points, name this Victorian British author whose real name was Mary Ann Evans, the woman behind such novels as Silas Marner and Middlemarch.
In 1880, just months before her death, she changed her surname yet again to Cross after marrying a man twenty years younger than her.
George {Eliot} (accept Mary Ann {Evans} if answered before it is mentioned)