George Eliot

1. Front Matter

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2. Warwickshire 1819–1849

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   Pages 1-21

3. London 1850–1857

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   Pages 22-41

4. Critical Writings / Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)

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   Pages 42-61

5. Adam Bede (1858) and Silas Marner (1861)

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   Pages 62-79

6. The Woman Question / The Mill on the Floss (1860)

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   Pages 80-97

7. The 1860s / Romola (1863) and The Spanish Gypsy (1868)

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   Pages 98-117

8. Felix Holt (1866) and Middlemarch (1871–72)

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   Pages 118-130

9. The 1870s / Daniel Deronda (1876)

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   Pages 131-145

10. Back Matter

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George Eliot (Marian Evans) as a writer of fiction is the central theme of this literary life. The events of Eliot's formative years, together with the growth of her renowned intellect, are outlined, giving us an insight into the creative talent responsible for some of the best-known novels in the English-language. Her views on other novels and novelists are detailed and we follow the development of her craft as writer as it evolved from the faithful representation of everyday life, as in Scenes of Clerical Life, through to the more complex considerations of Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.

• fiction
• George Eliot
• novel
• British and Irish Literature

'...a book to be welcomed for its readable style, sound sense and density of information' - Ian Sutton, The George Eliot Review

• McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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