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GEORGE ELIOT: A LIFE

by Rosemary Ashton

Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. 1st. 1996

Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. This biography of George Eliot traces her early years and her time, in 1851, as a journalist on the "Westminster Review". The author examines her relationship with Lewes, his encouragement, and Eliot's unrequited love for Chapman, her employer on the Review. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 465 pages including index.

Basde of spine lightly shelf-worn. Top edge of text block a little grubby. Gift inscription in ink to top edge of half-title page. Contents otherwise clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed, light wear to top & tail of spine, fading to spine.

ISBN: 0241134730
Stock no. 1831213

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Contents

  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • A NOTE ON SPELLINGS
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. A Warwickshire Childhood 1819-41
  • 2. Coventry, Rebellion, and The Life of Jesus 1841-6
  • 3. Father's Illness and Death: Interlude in Geneva 1847-50
  • 4. Marian Evans in London: 142 Strand 1851-3
  • 5. Life with Lewes: Weimar and Berlin 1854-5
  • 6. The Strong-Minded Woman of the Westminster Review 1855-6
  • 7. The Birth of George Eliot: Scenes of Clerical Life 1856-7
  • 8. Provincial Life Revised: Adam Bede 1858-9
  • 9. More Provincial Life: The Mill on the Floss 1859-60
  • 10. Realism and Romance: Silas Marner and Romola 1861-3
  • 11. Politics and Poetry: Felix Holt and The Spanish Gypsy 1864-8
  • 12. Writing Middlemarch 1869-72
  • 13. A New Departure: Daniel Deronda 1873-6
  • 14. Last Years 1877-80
  • EPILOGUE
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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