The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans
The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans

Author: Rosemarie Bodenheimer

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 150172102X

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Bodenheimer defines the personal paradoxes that helped to shape Eliot's fictional characters and narrative style. Bodenheimer revisits pivotal episodes in Mary Ann Evans's life and career, including the "Holy War" through which she asserted her youthful religious skepticism; her decision to elope with the married writer George Henry Lewes; and her marriage with John Cross after Lewes's death. Bodenheimer also discusses the rumor campaign that led to the discovery that "George Eliot" was a woman, and she traces the trajectory of Eliot's impassioned conflict between her ambition and her womanhood.

Problems of Life and Mind
Problems of Life and Mind

Author: George Lewes

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-12-30

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 3368847619

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

George Henry Lewes
George Henry Lewes

Author: Hock Guan Tjoa

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780674348745

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Lewes--consort of George Eliot, biographer of Robespierre and Goethe, novelist, editor, and critic--was also a scientist and philosopher. Tjoa not only reconstructs Lewes' theory of criticism and his social and political opinions but also evaluates his contributions to Darwinian science both as original thinker and as popularizer.

G.H. Lewes
G.H. Lewes

Author: Rosemary Ashton

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13:

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A journalist, novelist, playwright, and actor, Lewes was an unconventional Victorian, friend of Dickens, Thackeray, and Darwin, and author of Life of Goethe. A radical, freethinking Bohemian, he enjoyed an open marriage with Agnes Jervis, causing a scandal by condoning her relationship with his best friend. The first section of the book discovers new facets of Lewes's early life. The middle section discusses his elopement with Marian Evans while the final section concentrates on their emotional and intellectual companionship until Lewes's death in 1878. This section covers the years of Marian Evans's success as George Eliot, the acceptance of their unconventional union in society, and his science fiction work and support for Darwin. Throwing new light on a wide circle of important figures in the Victorian era, this biography draws on new material to illuminate the life of this extraordinary man of letters.