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George Eliot - by Kathryn Hughes (Paperback)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: Kathryn Hughes read modern history at Oxford, creative writing at UEA and has a PhD in Victorian studies.
  • 560 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Literary Figures

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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.



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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.



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When the radical journalist Marian Evans went to live with her lover, liberal Victorian society decreed that she would never again be invited to dinner. But exiled in suburbia Marian finally found the courage to start writing the novels which had haunted her imagination since childhood. Kathryn Hughes explores the connections between George Eliot's fractured life and her spectacular rejection of the lies and secrets that choked Victorian England.



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Praise for Kathryn Hughes's previous work:

'Seriously scholarly yet nonetheless accessible to the general reader... fascinating.'
Margaret Forster, Sunday Telegraph

'Illuminating, intelligent.'
Daily Telegraph

'Hughes has an acute ear for social nuance.'
The Times




About the Author



Kathryn Hughes read modern history at Oxford, creative writing at UEA and has a PhD in Victorian studies. She is a visiting professor in 19th century literature and history at several universities, and reviews regularly for the Daily Telegraph and the Literary Review. Her previous book was The Victorian Governess.

Dimensions (Overall): 7.81 Inches (H) x 5.06 Inches (W) x 1.43 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.11 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 560
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Literary Figures
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Format: Paperback
Author: Kathryn Hughes
Language: English
Street Date: July 1, 1999
TCIN: 1007034738
UPC: 9781857028911
Item Number (DPCI): 247-11-6301
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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