
This guide to Eliot's enduringly popular work offers an accessible introduction to its many contexts and overviews of key critical interpretations. Clearly structured and useful as a springboard to further study this book includes suggestions for further reading and incorporates...

As a woman in an illegal marriage, publishing under a male pseudonym, George Eliot was one of the most successful yet controversial writers of the Victorian period. Today she is considered a key figure for women's writing and her novels, including The Mill on the Floss and...