George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, an English novelist known for works including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch.
George Eliot
George Eliot's Life As Related In Her Letters and Journals
J.W. Cross. Blackwood, 1885, 3 vols.
Pseudonym of Marian Evans. Eliot and G.E. Lewes lived at several addresses on the west side of the park between 1860 and 1880.
Returning from the Zoo 'about five o'clock I could not help pausing and exclaiming at the exquisite beauty of the light on Regent's Park, exalting it into something that the young Turner would have wanted to paint'
An earlier letter describes their plans for employing 'a system of viva-voce mutual instruction...for giving new interest to Regent's Park' when they resume their walks there. Her real interest seems to have been the Zoo, 'my one outdoor pleasure now and we can take it several times a week, for Mr. Lewes has become a fellow'. Other mentions of the park and zoo appear elsewhere in the same volume, but no descriptions.