"Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it."

What I know so far:

• Her name is Marian Evans, not Mary Ann Evans. Hereon in I will refer to her as Marian because it's much prettier and I'm getting the beginnings of a title based on this being the name most reflective of her at her best and at her most revolutionary.
• The above quote may be pessimistic but it's becoming very apparent that she must be small-town Nuneaton through and through!
• She had a religious upbringing and regularly contemplates on God, but she found her own way and lost that reliance on religion.
• She went to London to live a life and fell for a man who wouldn't commit to her because he felt she was too intellectual for him. Pfft.
• Virgina Woolf wasn't lying when she said that Middlemarch is "written for grown-up people". Could this mean I've finally grown up now I've begun to enjoy it?