George Eliot
the last Victorian
by Kathryn Hughes
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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George Eliot: Family History (Rtp Family Histories)
January 16, 2001, Routledge
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0415232546 9780415232548
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George Eliot: The Last Victorian
February 2000, Fourth Estate Classic House
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in English
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1857028910 9781857028911
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George Eliot: the last Victorian
1999, Farrar Straus Giroux
in English
- 1st Farrar, Straus, and Giroux ed.
0374161380 9780374161385
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-374) and index.
Originally published: London : Fourth Estate, 1998.
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