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64/100Critics
74/100Scholars
Author:
Clare Carlisle
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
August 15, 2023
In her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliotâan author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Lewesâwriter, philosopher, and married father of three. After "eloping" to Berlin in 1854, they lived together for twenty-four years: Eliot asked people to call her "Mrs Lewes" and dedicated each novel to her "Husband." The relationship scandalized her contemporaries yet she grew immeasurably within it.
What The Reviewers Say
Eloquent and original.
Intriguing, often brilliant.
Eliot’s imaginative attraction to violently cruel and thwarting marriages, in contrast with her personal investment in a trustful, lasting intimacy, is a fascinating paradox that Clare Carlisle’s interesting book sets out to investigate.
Fascinating.
