Evans, Christiana Pearson (1788-1836)

Christiana Evans was George Eliot's mother. The daughter of a farmer, Isaac Pearson, Christiana married Robert Evans in 1813. Christiana gave birth to three children: Christiana 'Chrissey' (1814); Isaac (1816); and Mary Ann (George Eliot) (1819); along with two twin boys (William and Thomas in 1821) who did not survive their birth. Christiana died in 1836. Eliot was sixteen when her mother died. Eliot almost never mentions her mother in her surviving letters and journals. Kathleen McCormack is the biographer who has tackled this silence, in George Eliot and Intoxication (2000).

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Christiana Pearson Evans (1788-1836), Evans, Christiana Pearson (1788-1836), Social Network Gallery, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed November 11, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/97184