

This biography of Eliot sets her vividly in the political, social and religious context of the time. She arrived in London in 1851, determined to make her way as a journalist on the Westminster Review, a paper until then exclusively dominated by men. It was whilst she was working...


'This richly enjoyable biography of the great Victorian novelist reminds us how truly revolutionary was George Eliot... Ashton] provides luminously sane readings of the marvellous novels.' A.N. Wilson, Evening Standard 'Excellent... Ashton cites Eliot's...