Life of George Eliot

ISBN-13: 9781108040495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 194 str.

Oscar Browning

Opis

'George Eliot' was the pseudonym of Marian Evans (1819 80), possibly the greatest of the Victorian novelists, whose works include The Mill on the Floss (1860), Middlemarch (1871 2) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Her personal life was complex she was an independent woman who challenged social conventions. Her friend, Eton master and historian Oscar Browning (1837 1923), was moved to write this affectionate assessment of her life, and it was published in 1890, offering 'no claims ... but a friendship of fifteen years, and a deep and unswerving devotion to her mind and character'. Browning takes a chronological approach, focusing mainly on the beginnings of Eliot's writing career and on her novels, while adding recollections of their encounters. He also writes with candour about Eliot's relationship and cohabitation with the married writer G. H. Lewes (1817 78), which transgressed the social norms of the period."