George Eliot's Life As Related In Her Letters And Journals (1908) - Softcover

Eliot, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1166048314 ISBN 13: 9781166048310

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

George Eliot's Life As Related In Her Letters And Journals (1908) is a biographical work that provides a comprehensive account of the life of the acclaimed British novelist and poet, George Eliot. The book is based on Eliot's personal letters and journals, which offer a unique insight into her personal and professional life. The book covers Eliot's early life, including her childhood and education, as well as her early career as a writer and editor. It also delves into her personal life, including her relationships with family, friends, and lovers. The book highlights Eliot's literary achievements, including her most famous novels such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss. It also explores her role as a feminist and social critic, and her involvement in political and social causes of her time. The author of the book, George Eliot, is widely considered to be one of the greatest English novelists of the 19th century. Her works are known for their realism, psychological depth, and social commentary. This biographical work provides readers with a deeper understanding of Eliot's life and work, and is a must-read for fans of her writing and those interested in the literary history of the Victorian era.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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About the Author

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. She also wished to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years. Her 1872 work Middlemarch has been described by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1166048314
• ISBN 13: 9781166048310
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: Cross John Walter