George Eliot A Critic's Biography

George Eliot (1819-1880) was one of the leading writers of the Victorian period and still remains one of Britain's greatest novelists. Barbara Hardy discusses Eliot's brave but joyful unmarried partnership with George Henry Lewes, her friendships and her late brief marriage to the younger John Cross. Setting her life and fiction side by side, Hardy reveals Eliot's ideas about society, home, foreignness, nature, gender, religion, sex, illness and death and her experiences as translator, journalist, editor and novelist. Drawing on letters, journals, journalism and the memoirs and biographies written by contemporaries, Hardy brings together a biographical approach with close reading of Eliot's novels to give a combined perspective on her life and art. This book offers readers an illuminating portrait of George Eliot as a woman and a writer.Hardy, Barbara is the author of 'George Eliot A Critic's Biography', published 2006 under ISBN 9780826485168 and ISBN 0826485162.