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A journalist, novelist, playwright, and actor, Lewes was an unconventional Victorian, friend of Dickens, Thackeray, and Darwin, and author of Life of Goethe. A radical, freethinking Bohemian, he enjoyed an open marriage with Agnes Jervis, causing a scandal by condoning her relationship with his best friend. The first section of the book discovers new facets of Lewes's early life. The middle section discusses his elopement with Marian Evans while the final section concentrates on their emotional and intellectual companionship until Lewes's death in 1878. This section covers the years of Marian Evans's success as George Eliot, the acceptance of their unconventional union in society, and his science fiction work and support for Darwin. Throwing new light on a wide circle of important figures in the Victorian era, this biography draws on new material to illuminate the life of this extraordinary man of letters.
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"A lively biography of a minor but fascinating figure."--Virginia Quarterly Review
"Not likely to be superseded unless some new material turns up....Important for Victorian scholars, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates."--Choice
"Splendid....Nobody could have done it better than Ashton."--Sunday Times (London)
"[A] splendid biography....What emerges from Ashton's work...[is] a familiar life made fresh and moving with new detail and proper emphasis....Rosemary Ashton has given us a witty, humane, and beautifully written book finished to the highest scholarly and critical standards. It is now the one indispensable work on its subject, and it is essential reading as well for anyone interested in George Eliot, in nineteenth-century English radicalism, or in the fine art to which biography can be brought."--Nineteenth-Century Prose
"Ashton's book is a well-written, scholarly, undogmatic, sympathetic but not idolatrous study of Lewes. It deserves to be the definitive biography."--Nineteenth-Century Literature
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