BOOK: George Eliot - A life

• One of the great novelists of the 19th Century , "he" was really Mary Ann Evans writing under a pen name. All of her famous works (Adam Bede, Silas Marner, Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch) are concerned with hypocrisy and rural society. George Eliot defined but also scandalised Victorian Society. Her life was as rich and complex as any of her extraordinary novels and her depiction of the times in which she lived remains unsurpassed.

by Rosemary Ashton (Softback, 465 pages)