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.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 |
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| 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 |
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