Born Marian Evans, writer George Eliot gave up the church and her pious          upbringing to become one of the 19th century's greatest British writers, using   classic works such as Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss and        Middlemarch to criticize societal norms. This documentary examines the   life of this genius, who used her famous pseudonym as a way of steering her    novels away from the conventions of entertainment and into serious-minded      USA---2007---60 mins.