Born in the same year as Queen Victoria, George Eliot gives the finest definition of the Victorian age, both in her life and her fiction. Rosemary Ashton explores the central paradox in her life and work, the need both to conform and rebel.
Very definitive, very concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures--people whose influence and importance...