The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans

by Rosemarie Bodenheimer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801429889
• ISBN13: 9780801429880
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher