The life of George Eliot
Subtitle: a critical biography
By: Nancy Henry
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781405137058
Subjects: English Novelists; Biography
Description: "The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life and work combines recent biographical research with penetrating literary criticism, resulting in revealing new interpretations of her literary work."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history of a writer : George Eliot and biographies; title: Early years (1819-1849); title: London and George Lewes (1850-54); title: Marian Lewes and George Eliot (1855-59); title: Silas Marner and Romola (1860-64); title: Felix Holt, the radical and The Spanish gypsy (1865-69); title: Middlemarch (1870-72); title: Daniel Deronda (1873-76); title: Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1877-78); title: The final years : 1879 to Cross's life.