George Eliot (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Rosemary Ashton
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1819-1880
- Setting: Warwickshire, Coventry, and London, England; Geneva, Switzerland; Germany; and Italy
- Principal Characters: Marian Evans, Robert Evans, Isaac Evans, Charles Bray, Cara Bray, Sara Hennell, John Chapman, Herbert Spencer, George H. Lewes, John Blackwood, John Cross
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Religion, Alienation, England or English people, Women’s issues, Women, Puritans or Puritanism, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: London, England, Germany, Italy, Geneva, Switzerland, Warwickshire, England, Coventry, England
It was relatively late in life—at age thirty- seven—that Marian Evans published, anonymously, her first fiction, thus commencing the novelistic career which made hers, under the pseudonym George Eliot, one of the preeminent voices of the Victorian era. For Rosemary Ashton, indeed, Eliot “was the greatest woman of the century,” for the extraordinary reach of her intellectual and personal knowledge and understanding, for the daring steps of her young womanhood, and for the novels in which, Ashton argues, more than any other single writer, she “capture[d] sympathetically the...
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