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George Eliot's Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title George Eliot's Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals
Authors and Contributors      By (author) George Eliot
Edited by John Walter Cross
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
Series part Volume No. Volume 2
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:470
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 27
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9781108020077
ClassificationsDewey:823.8
Audience
Further/Higher Education
Illustrations 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 28 October 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Walter Cross (1840-1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of 1885 from his late wife's journals and letters. Eliot was never married to her long-term partner G. H. Lewes, and she courted further scandal when she married Cross, twenty years her junior, in the spring of 1880. While these volumes offer a valuable insight into Eliot's private reflections, what is perhaps most telling is the material left out or rewritten in Cross' efforts to lend his wife's unconventional life some respectability, which he does at the expense of what one reviewer described as Eliot's 'salt and spice'. George Eliot's Life will be of particular interest to scholars of nineteenth-century biography and literature. Volume 2 covers the years 1858-1866, including Eliot's initial success in fiction and her travels in Italy, Holland, and along the Rhine.