George Eliot - The Last Victorian (Paperback, New edition)

George Eliot - or Marian Evans - or Mrs G H Lewes - had a vivid life which embraced secret authorship, intense inhibition, extraordinary flouting of Victorian values and final, if somewhat melancholy, triumph. Her love affair with the married Lewes (the ugliest man in London linked to a woman frankly told she was too ugly ever to marry) is interesting without being romantic, and perhaps the most exciting thing about her life was her continual bickering with her publishers. This new biography is thorough and clearly narrated, if not without basic errors (such as the belief that this author lies next to Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey). (Kirkus UK)

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 England's last great visionary and the first modern. An immensely readable biography of the 19th century writer whose territory comprised nothing less than the entire span of Victorian society. Kathryn Hughes provides a truly nuanced view of Eliot, and is the first to grapple equally with the personal dramas that shaped her personality - particularly her rejection by her brother Isaac - and her social and intellectual context. Hughes shows how these elements together forged the themes of Eliot's work, her insistence that ideological interests be subordinated to the bonds between human beings - a message that has keen resonance in our own time. With wit and sympathy Kathryn Hughes has written a wonderfully vivid account of Eliot's life that is both moving, stimulating and at times laugh-out-loud funny.

General

Imprint:	4th Estate
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 1999
Authors:	Kathryn Hughes
Dimensions:	196 x 129 x 39mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	536
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-85702-891-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-85702-891-0
Barcode:	9781857028911

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