Is It Too Late?

The famous writer and novelist George Eliot (1819-1880) was actually Mary Anne Evans. Because of her personal life and her desire to be taken seriously as a writer, she adopted the masculine pen name “George Eliot.” Her works endure and her place in literary history is secure – except that she is overwhelmingly known as George Eliot, not Mary Anne Evans. What makes this even more ironic is that my favorite quote is a quote from her:

“It is never go late to be what you might have been.”

How sad that she could never be known for who she really was. How sad that many of us will make the same mistake.