Today’s Blooms Posted on September 9, 2019 by Cynthia “The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”– George Eliot Photo taken at the Washington Lavender Farm About George EliotGeorge Eliot was the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, the Victorian author known for her psychologically astute novels set in small English towns. She was born on a farm in England in 1819 and wrote several acclaimed novels, including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner. She lived with George Henry Lewes for several years, which was considered highly scandalous at the time. She died in 1880.