Silas Marner

Silas Marner, originally published in 1861 and is the first novel written with the pen name George Eliot, for Mary Ann Evans. This novel is set in the early 19th century in a small religious community known as Lantern Yard. Silas Marner, a weaver, is a highly thought about member of a dissenting chapel. Engaged to a young servant-woman named Sarah, Silas thinks that their happiness is assured. Silas finds that he is blamed for a theft by a fellow parishioner and is expelled from his congregation. He later finds that his former fiancée married the man who falsely accused him of theft.