This richly enjoyable biography of the great Victorian novelist reminds us how truly revolutionary was George Eliot... [Ashton] provides luminously sane readings of the marvellous novels.' A.N. Wilson,
Evening Standard
'Excellent... Ashton cites Eliot's achievement in a literary landscape which moves from Scott and George Sand to Dickens, Tennyson and Browning... a fluent, vivid book... it makes one thrill again to the breadth of Eliot's genius and the passionate, vulnerable nature that accompanied her wide-ranging mind.' Jenny Uglow,
Independent on Sunday
'An extremely impressive work... the George Eliot who emerges from Professor Ashton's book is a remarkable woman of exceptional integrity whose life expresses the spirit of the Victorian age, even as it goes against the very grain of it.' Susie Boyt,
Sunday Express
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LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- A NOTE ON SPELLINGS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE: A Warwickshire Childhood 1819–41
- CHAPTER TWO: Coventry, Rebellion, and The Life of Jesus 1841–6
- CHAPTER THREE: Father’s Illness and Death; Interlude in Geneva 1847–50
- CHAPTER FOUR: Marian Evans in London: 142 Strand 1851–3
- CHAPTER FIVE: Life with Lewes: Weimar and Berlin 1854–5
- CHAPTER SIX: The Strong-minded Woman of the Westminster Review 1855–6
- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Birth of George Eliot: Scenes of Clerical Life 1856–7
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Provincial Life Revisited: Adam Bede 1858–9
- CHAPTER NINE: More Provincial Life: The Mill on the Floss 1859–60
- CHAPTER TEN: Realism and Romance: Silas Marner and Romola 1861–3
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Politics and Poetry: Felix Holt and The, Spanish Gypsy 1864–8
- CHAPTER TWELVE: Writing Middlemarch 1869–72
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: A New Departure: Daniel Deronda 1873–6
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Last Years 1877–80
- EPILOGUE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Plate
- Copyright
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