George Eliot: A Critic's Biography (Writers Lives)

by Barbara Hardy (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $201.35

  George Eliot (1819-1880) was one of the leading writers of the Victorian period and one of Britain's great novelists. This biography offers insights into Eliot's life and work focusing on the themes, patterns, relationships, feelings and language common to her life and writing. It offers an illuminating portrait of her as a woman and a writer.

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  Paperback
  1976

  $6.66

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  Paperback
  2006

  $31.16

  George Eliot (1819-1880) was one of the leading writers of the Victorian period and she remains one of Britain's greatest novelists. This biography offers new insights into Eliot's life and work focusing on the themes, patterns, relationships, feelings and language common to both her life and writing. Barbara Hardy discusses Eliot's relations with parents and siblings, her brave but joyful unmarried partnership with George Henry Lewes, her friendships and her late brief marriage to the younger John Cross. Setting her life and fiction side by side, Hardy reveals Eliot's ideas about society, home, foreignness, nature, gender, religion, sex, illness and death and her experiences as translator, journalist, editor and novelist. Drawing on letters, journals, journalism and the memoirs and biographies written by contemporaries, Hardy brings together a biographical approach with close reading of Eliot's novels to give a combined perspective on her life and art. This book offers students, academics and readers alike an illuminating portrait of George Eliot as a woman and a writer.