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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a great novelist who knew everyone of her time,
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This review is from: George Eliot a Biography (Hardcover)
This is a book for readers who were engrossed in Middlemarch from beginning to end and believe Eliot is one of the greatest novelists in the English language. It is long and very detailed,well documented, but full of excerpts from letters and quotes from people who knew her. She knew EVERYBODY! Listz, Emerson,Rubenstein, Carlyle, Dickens, Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, Burne-Jones, Tennyson, etc. etc. Her relationship with Herbert Spencer was a long and very close one, but he never asked her to marry him, by all accounts because she was not good-looking enough. The book is scholarly enough, but full of interpretations, and enjoyable to read. It does deal with almost every day in her most interesting life. It is not for someone looking for a short biography.
0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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George Eliot--a woman,
By Norma F. Gillespie "Women's Literature Buff" (Seminole, Oklahoma United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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Why did Mary Ann Evans write under the name of George Eliot? Her biography tells of a woman ahead of her times. She dared to be herself and tasted freedom for it.
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George Eliot: A Biography by Gordon Sherman Haight (Hardcover - Sept. 1968)
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