Kathy O'Shaughnessy is in love with George Eliot
Channel: Dark Matter Zine
Date: 2019-11-10

In this podcast and video interview, Nalini Haynes talks to Kathy O’Shaughnessy who is in love with George Eliot. So much so that she wrote a book about George Eliot, aka Mary Ann Evans Lewes.

Kathy O’Shaughnessy has reviewed books for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, Financial Times, Independent, The Observer, TLS, New Statesman, The Spectator, and others. She has worked as Deputy Editor on the Literary Review, Arts & Books Editor of Vogue, Literary Editor of The European, and Deputy Editor of The Telegraph Arts & Books. Her stories have been published in Faber’s First Fictions, and she edited and introduced Drago Stambuk’s poems, Incompatible Animals.

In this interview Kathy talks about falling in love with George Eliot, writing the novel, the intersection between fact and fiction, historical records of George Eliot's life and relationships with others and more.