In Love with George Eliot

Scribe US

ISBN 10: 1950354261 / ISBN 13: 9781950354269

Published by Scribe US, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Love with George Eliot
• Publisher: Scribe US
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1950354261
• ISBN 13: 9781950354269
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR

What every lover of George Eliot’s work wants: a new novel made from her life and mind

Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society. In secret, though, she has begun writing fiction under the pseudonym George Eliot. As Adam Bede’s fame grows, curiosity rises. Gradually it becomes apparent that the moral genius Eliot is none other than the disgraced woman.

Now celebrity begins. The world falls in love with her. She is the wise and great writer, sent to guide people through the increasingly secular, rudderless century. Public opinion shifts. Her scandals, forgiven. But this idyll is not secure and cannot last. When Lewes dies, Evans finds herself in danger of shocking the world all over again.

Meanwhile, in another century, two women compete to arrive at an interpretation of Eliot as writer and as woman…

About the Author

Kathy O’Shaughnessy has reviewed books for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, Financial Times, Independent, The Observer, TLS, New Statesman, The Spectator, and others. She has worked as Deputy Editor on the Literary Review, Arts & Books Editor of Vogue, Literary Editor of The European, and Deputy Editor of The Telegraph Arts & Books. Her stories have been published in Faber’s First Fictions, and she edited and introduced Drago Stambuk’s poems, Incompatible Animals.