Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious
debut novel which tells the compelling story of England's greatest woman
novelist as you've never read it before. Marian Evans is a scandalous
figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes.
She has shocked polite society, and women rarely deign to visit her. In
secret, though, she has begun writing fiction under the pseudonym George
Eliot. As Adam Bede's fame grows, curiosity rises as to the identity of
its mysterious writer.
Gradually it becomes apparent that the
moral genius Eliot is none other than the disgraced woman living with
Lewes. Now Evans' tremendous 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, and an icon to
her progressive feminist peers - with whom she is often at odds. Public
opinion shifts. Her scandalous cohabitation seems 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 rudderless century, two women compete to arrive at an
interpretation of Eliot as writer and as woman ...
Everyone who
has thrilled at being shown the world anew by George Eliot will thrill
again at her presence, complex and compelling, here.
In Love with George Eliot - Kathy O'Shaughnessy
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