ASIN: B01AAG0OKY
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 102
George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans, a highly-strung, exceptionally intelligent girl, brought up in the seclusion of Victorian Warwickshire.Her keen observation and passionate moral concern mark all her fiction, from Scenes of Clerical Life (published in 1858 when she was thirty-nine) and Adam Bede (1859), which established her reputation, to her masterpiece, Middlemarch (1871-72), and her last great novel, Daniel Deronda (1876).So much was concealed, by herself and by her intimates, of her long-lasting liaison with G. H. Lewes, her extraordinary relationship with John Chapman and her strange late marriage to John Cross, that the true facts add to our sympathy for her as a woman and our respect for her enduring achievement as a writer.The path of the sexual transgressor was a thorny one in mid-Victorian society, but execration of her actions and distrust of her works was transformed by ...
