George Eliot by Kathryn Hughes

George Eliot by Kathryn Hughes

The daughter of a respectable self-made businessman, the middle-aged Eliot was cast into social exile when she began a scandalous liaison with married writer and scientist George Henry Lewes. Only her burgeoning literary success allowed her to overcome society's disapproval and eventually take her proper place at the heart of London's literary elite. The territory of her novels encompassed the entire span of Victorian society. Kathryn Hughes has wrought a balanced, sympathetic, and intensely engaging biography, the first to grapple equally with the personal dramas that shaped Eliot's psyche and with her broader social and intellectual milieu. A lively portrait emerges of a woman and writer by turns ambitious and insecure, cerebral and earthy, provocative and conservative--contradictions which not only express the spirit of Eliot's time, but speak eloquently to our own.

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
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