George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals

Eliot, George. Ed(s): Cross, John Walter

ISBN 10: 1108020070 / ISBN 13: 9781108020077

Published by Cambridge Library Collection, 2010

About this Item

Compiled from letters and journals, this three-volume biography presents an intimate portrait of George Eliot in her own words. Editor(s): Cross, John Walter. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies. Num Pages: 470 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590. . 2010. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals
• Publisher: Cambridge Library Collection
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108020070
• ISBN 13: 9781108020077
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Walter Cross (1840–1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of 1885 from his late wife's journals and letters. Eliot was never married to her long-term partner G. H. Lewes, and she courted further scandal when she married Cross, twenty years her junior, in the spring of 1880. While these volumes offer a valuable insight into Eliot's private reflections, what is perhaps most telling is the material left out or rewritten in Cross' efforts to lend his wife's unconventional life some respectability, which he does at the expense of what one reviewer described as Eliot's 'salt and spice'. George Eliot's Life will be of particular interest to scholars of nineteenth-century biography and literature. Volume 2 covers the years 1858–1866, including Eliot's initial success in fiction and her travels in Italy, Holland, and along the Rhine.

Book Description

First published in 1885, this three-part 'autobiography' was assembled by John Cross from the letters and journals of his late wife, George Eliot. Though suppressing much in the desire to render an unconventional life 'respectable', the work remains an important initial insight into Eliot's personal and private life.