George Eliot - Hughes, Kathryn
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This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England's last great visionary and the first modern.
When the radical journalist Marian Evans went to live with her lover, liberal Victorian society decreed that she would never again be invited to dinner. But exiled in suburbia Marian finally found the courage to start writing the novels which had haunted her imagination since childhood. Kathryn Hughes explores the connections between…mehr

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This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England's last great visionary and the first modern.
When the radical journalist Marian Evans went to live with her lover, liberal Victorian society decreed that she would never again be invited to dinner. But exiled in suburbia Marian finally found the courage to start writing the novels which had haunted her imagination since childhood. Kathryn Hughes explores the connections between George Eliot's fractured life and her spectacular rejection of the lies and secrets that choked Victorian England.
Autorenporträt
Kathryn Hughes is the prize-winning author of four previous books on Victorian social history, including a biography of Mrs Beeton which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and adapted for the BBC. She regularly writers for the Guardian, the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. Kathryn is currently Professor Emerita at the University of East Anglia, and a Fellow of both the Royal Literary Society and the Royal Historical Society.