George Eliots Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals by George Eliot

George Eliots Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals by George Eliot

Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Walter Cross (1840-1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of 1885 from his late wife's journals and letters. Eliot was never married to her long-term partner G. H. Lewes, and she courted further scandal when she married Cross, twenty years her junior, in the spring of 1880. While these volumes offer a valuable insight into Eliot's private reflections, what is perhaps most telling is the material left out or rewritten in Cross' efforts to lend his wife's unconventional life some respectability, which he does at the expense of what one reviewer described as Eliot's 'salt and spice'. George Eliot's Life will be of particular interest to scholars of nineteenth-century biography and literature. Volume 3 focuses on Eliot's final years, including her later literary success, travels in Spain, the death of G. H. Lewes, and her marriage to Cross.

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ISBN 13	9781108020077
ISBN 10	1108020070
Title	George Eliots Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals
Author	George Eliot
Series	Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2010-10-28
Number of pages	470
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