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Summary

This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England’s last great visionary and the first modern.

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George Eliot by Kathryn Hughes

This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian Englands last great visionary and the first modern.

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Praise for Kathryn Hughes’s previous work:

‘Seriously scholarly yet nonetheless accessible to the general reader… fascinating’
Margaret Forster, Sunday Telegraph

‘Illuminating, intelligent.’
Daily Telegraph

‘Hughes has an acute ear for social nuance.’
The Times

Kathryn Hughes read modern history at Oxford, creative writing at UEA and has a PhD in Victorian studies. She is a visiting professor in 19th century literature and history at several universities, and reviews regularly for the Daily Telegraph and the Literary Review. Her previous book was The Victorian Governess.

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ISBN 13 9781857028911
ISBN 10 1857028910
Title George Eliot
Author Kathryn Hughes
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 1999-07-01
Number of pages 560
Prizes Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Biography) 2000, Short-listed for James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize: Biography 2000
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.