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Who was the real George Eliot?In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of Englandβs greatest woman novelist as youβve 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 βs 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 Evansβ 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 β with whom she is often in disagreement. Public opinion shifts. Her scandalous cohabitation is 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 β¦ Everyone who has thrilled at being shown the world anew by George Eliot will thrill again at her presence, complex and compelling, here. **
Kathy OβShaughnessy has reviewed books for The Guardian , The Telegraph , The Times , Financial Times , Independent , The Observer , TLS , New Statesman , The Spectator , and others. Past jobs include Deputy Editor on the Literary Review , Arts & Books Editor of Vogue , Literary Editor of The European , and Deputy Editor of The Telegraph Arts & Books. Her stories have been published in Faberβs First Fictions , and she edited and introduced Drago Stambukβs poems, Incompatible Animals.
Eliot, George, -- 1819-1880
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