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George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals

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  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 13.8 x 21.7 x 3 cm

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For readers interested in George Eliot's life story

Reveals the untold truths behind Eliot's biography

You will gain deep insights into her complex character

Explore the fascinating life of George Eliot through her own letters and journals.

Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John 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 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 1 covers Eliot's life from 1819 to 1857, beginning with a brief sketch of her childhood and continuing with her move to Coventry, then to London, and travels to Geneva.
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  • Title

    George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals

  • Author

    George Eliot

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    October 2010

  • Weight

    672g

  • Dimensions

    13.8 x 21.7 x 3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781108020060

  • ISBN-10

    1108020062

  • Eden Code

    5029777

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