George Eliots Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals
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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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| 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 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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