Bibliograph

George Eliot, the last Victorian, Kathryn Hughes

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George Eliot, the last Victorian, Kathryn Hughes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-374) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

George Eliot

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Kathryn Hughes

Sub title

the last Victorian

Summary

"George Eliot's extraordinary life, which produced some of the nineteenth-century's finest fiction, is explored in Kathryn Hughes' new biography. The daughter of a self-made businessman of impeccable respectability, the middle-aged Eliot was cast into social exile when she began a scandalous liaison with the married writer and scientist George Henry Lewes. Only her burgeoning literary success allowed her to overcome society's disapproval and eventually take her proper place at the heart of London's literary elite. The territory of her novels comprised nothing less than the entire span of Victorian society. Although years of rigorous reading had given Eliot an unparalleled understanding of the intellectual debates of her day, she preferred to champion a pragmatic middle ground, where idealism is tempered by love, habit, and history."--Jacket

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