Impressions of Theophrastus Such Author:Virginia Woolf Mary Ann Evans who is better known by her pen name George Eliot was a leading British Victorian novelist. Eliot was known for her realism and keenness in developing psychological plots. Evans decided to write under a male pen name so that her work would be taken seriously. This is Eliot's last published work and is written in the form of ess... more »ays. Eliot covers such topics as; philosophy, national consciousness, self-deception, plagiarism and moral blindness. The reader is given insight into the character of Eliot and her friends.« less