George Eliot in Love - Hardcover

Maddox, Brenda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230105181 ISBN 13: 9780230105188

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2010

Synopsis

George Eliot is one of the most celebrated novelists in history. Her books, including Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and Adam Bede, are as appreciated now as they were in the nineteenth century. Yet her nonconformist and captivating personal life a compelling story in itself is not well known. Ridiculed as an ugly duckling, Eliot violated strict social codes by living with a married man for most of her adult life. Soon after he died, she married a much younger man who attempted suicide during their honeymoon. The obstacles Eliot overcame in her life informed her work and have made her legacy an enduring one. Brenda Maddox brings her lively style to bear on the intersection of Eliot s life and novels. She delves into the human side of this larger-than-life figure, revealing the pleasure and pain behind the intellectual s public face. The result is a deeply personal biography that sheds new light on a woman who lived life on her own terms and altere

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About the Author

Brenda Maddox is an award-winning author and journalist. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Observer, The Times, and New Statesman. Her book Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA won the Los Angeles Times Science Book Award for 2002 and her book D. H. Lawrence: The Married Man won the Whitbread Biography Prize. Her book Nora was made into a film starring Ewan McGregor. She lives in London and Wales.

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230105181
• ISBN 13: 9780230105188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256