The Consuming Flame-The Story Of George Eliot

By: F W Kenyon

The Consuming Flame: The Story of George Eliot, is a richly detailed account of the strait-laced Victorian world and of a woman who had the passion and courage to defy its taboos. Counter to every convention of her day, Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, followed her heart in two liaisons with married men, but the power of her personality and the richness of the talent she found in herself as a novelist, bore down the torrent of whispers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000OKAEFW
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company