George Eliot has been compared to Shakespeare and Dante in her role as a moral authority. This text offers criticism of her work from some of the most respected authorities on the subject. Studied works include 'The Mill on the Floss', 'Silas Marner', 'Middlemarch', and 'Daniel Deronda'.
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TheCambridge Introduction to George Eliot
George Eliot’s life provides as compelling a narrative as any she ever invented. Born the same year as Queen Victoria, the woman known successively asMary Anne Evans, Marian Lewes, George Eliot and Mary Ann Cross lived through dramatic personal and cultural changes that track those of the nineteenth century. While George Eliot refused to sanction any biography during her life, she showed a lively interest in the biographies of others. After reading J. G. Lockhart’s Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (1839), for example, she wrote: “All biography is interesting
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