George Eliot (1819-1880) was one of the leading writers of the Victorian period and she remains one of Britain's greatest novelists. This brief life offers new insights into Eliot's life and work focusing on the themes, patterns, relationships,...
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George Eliot (1819-1880) was one of the leading writers of the Victorian period and she remains one of Britain's greatest novelists. This brief life offers new insights into Eliot's life and work focusing on the themes, patterns, relationships, feelings and language common to both her life and writing. Barbara Hardy discusses Eliot's relations with parents and siblings, her brave but joyful unmarried partnership with George Henry Lewes, her friendships and her late brief marriage to the younger John Cross. Setting her life and fiction side by side, Hardy reveals Eliot's ideas about society, ho
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; References and Abbreviations; An Outline of George Eliot's Life and Writings; One Scenes of Family Life; Two Home, Travel and a Need for Foreignness; Three Three or Four Love Stories; Four Acquaintances and Friends; Five Illness and Death; Six Objects, Words and Metaphors; Index