George Eliot marries John Walter Cross, 20 years her junior, and begins calling herself Mary Ann Cross

George Eliot and her new husband move into a splendid new house in Cheyne Walk, beside the Thames in London

George Eliot dies, of a long-standing kidney disease, and a week later is buried beside G.H. Lewes in Highgate cemetery

On their honeymoon in Venice, George Eliot's husband develops depression and throws himself, or falls, from their hotel balcony into the Grand Canal

100 years after her death George Eliot is given a memorial stone (denied to her in 1880) in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner