Check out Rebecca Mead’s essay in the New Yorker, “Without Austen, No Eliot,” which was was written on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Mead  discusses the surprising literary links between Austen and “Marian Evans, the formidable literary critic and translator who within a few years would herself become a writer of fiction under the pseudonym of George Eliot.” 

image taken from the New Yorker