Bird Grove, Foleshill
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Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 9 Mar 2014
Historic house on George Eliot Road, Foleshill, Coventry. Mary Ann Evans, the future George Eliot, lived here in the 1840s with her father, until his death in 1849. Her father was hoping to find her a suitable husband in Coventry, the daughter was immersing herself in learning and in the freethinking intellectual life that was found at the salon of Charles and Cara Bray, who lived nearby. The area would not have been densely built up at that time, and the house today appears much altered, compared to an illustration from the period. It was used for some years as an education centre by the Bangladeshi community, but by 2019 it was disused and boarded up. https://news.coventrysociety.org.uk/2019/05/07/george-eliot-bi-centenary-but-not-in-coventry/
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