Is it too late

bydavebux

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3 years ago

George Eliot was the author of the above quote and what a life she had.

Born Mary Ann Evans she was already well known in the literary world when she started writing novels. Wanting the novels to stand on their own merit she used the pen-name George Eliot for The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch and several others.

I suppose it’s only like you and I having two or three email addresses (What! You don’t).

During the American Civil War, she strongly expressed her support of the Unionist forces, then she turned her attention to the Irish independence cause and she also strongly voiced her belief in equality for women.

What a turbulent life she had, she lived with her lover for nearly thirty years but they never married, they couldn’t, he was already married.

This was a big no-no in Victorian England in the 1800s and this caused a massive rift in their family. Her brother never spoke to her for all that time. She had several children with her lover and on his death she married a long-time acquaintance. But this was also controversial, he was more than twenty years her junior.

That didn’t start off right either, they went to Europe for a honeymoon and her husband jumped out of the hotel bedroom window into the Venice canals and tried to drown himself. He didn’t, but just 7 months later, just before Christmas she died of kidney failure.

As a life-long doubter of Christianity, she was not allowed to be buried in the main part of Highgate Cemetery; but instead buried in a quarter of the grounds reserved for political and religious dissenters and agnostics. She was, however buried next to her lover, the man she had shared a bed with for most of her life and close to the grave of her good friend Karl Marx.

We can all learn from her full on attitude to life, always doing something, always being involved, always watching and learning. She would have made a great member here at WA.

What a life. Lived to the full until her death.

Now get up and live yours.

Bux