>>24722477
the portrait artist felt bad for her
if she wasn't ugly there is no way she would have written those books.
In Adam Bede the pretty girl is stupid and gets abandoned by her baby daddy while the intellectual girl is actually even prettier than the pretty girl and mogs her with her sovl.

George Elliot didn't like stupid bitches.

>George Eliot was considered by contemporaries to be physically unattractive; she herself knew this and made jokes about her appearance in letters to friends.[54] Despite this, numerous acquaintances found that the force of her personality overcame their impression of her appearance.[54] Of his first meeting with her on 9 May 1869, Henry James wrote:

>... To begin with she is magnificently ugly — deliciously hideous. She has a low forehead, a dull grey eye, a vast pendulous nose, a huge mouth, full of uneven teeth & a chin & jawbone qui n'en finissent pas ["which never end"] ... Now in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes steals forth & charms the mind, so that you end as I ended, in falling in love with her.[55]

>>24722477
Echoing the other anon if she actually looked like her portrait on the left she would have never written her books, let alone study German philosophy and translations. She is probably more deserving of the name George Eliot than most males

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>>24722951
>To begin with she is magnificently ugly — deliciously hideous
Kek. In today´s world she could get some extreme fetishists

>>24722746
Yeah, Middlemarch doesn't sound like it was written by a coddled women at all

>>24722477
Age 30 vs age 40.

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>>24722477
this one's egregious too