George Eliot Building

Built in 1960 and fully refurbished in recent years, this building provides modern teaching and learning spaces for both Coventry Law School and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. It is named after George Eliot, which was the pen name of the novelist Mary Anne Evans, one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

George Eliot – isn’t a man, it is actually the pen name for the 19th century novelist Mary Anne Evans. Mary Anne was born in Nuneaton near Coventry in 1819. She moved to Bird Grove in the Foleshill area of Coventry with her father in 1841 and lived there until 1849. Many of the titles of her novels you may well be familiar with; Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871-2). George Eliot passed away in December 1880 and was buried in Highgate cemetery. The house she lived in in Coventry is now a Grade 2 listed building and can be found at 9 George Eliot Road, Coventry. For more information visit the George Eliot Fellowship www.georgeeliot.org