Title: The real life of Mary Ann Evans
First published: 1994
Description: Bodenheimer defines the personal paradoxes that helped to shape Eliot's fictional characters and narrative style. Bodenheimer revisits pivotal episodes in Mary Ann Evans's life and career, including the "Holy War" through which she asserted her youthful religious skepticism; her decision to elope with the married writer George Henry Lewes; and her marriage with John Cross after Lewes's death.

Bodenheimer also discusses the rumor campaign that led to the discovery that "George Eliot" was a woman, and she traces the trajectory of Eliot's impassioned conflict between her ambition and her womanhood.
Subjects: Correspondence, Novelists, English, English Novelists, Autobiographical fiction, English, History and criticism, Letter writing, Women and literature, English Autobiographical fiction, Self in literature, History, English letters, Biography, English Women novelists, Eliot, george, 1819-1880
Places: England
People: George Eliot (1819-1880)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR4681 .B57 1994