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The marriage question : George Eliot's double life
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ISBN: 9780241447178 Year: 2023 Publisher: London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books,

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When she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot - an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Lewes - writer, philosopher and married father of three. After 'eloping' to Berlin in 1854 they lived together for twenty-four years: Eliot asked people to call her 'Mrs Lewes' and dedicated each novel to her 'Husband'. Though they could not legally marry, she felt herself initiated into the 'great experience' of marriage - 'this double life, which helps me to feel and think with double strength'. The relationship scandalized her contemporaries yet she grew immeasurably within it. Living at once inside and outside marriage, Eliot could experience this form of life - so familiar yet also so perplexing - from both sides. In The Marriage Question Clare Carlisle reveals Eliot to be not only a great artist but a brilliant philosopher who probes the tensions and complexities of a shared life. Through the immense ambition and dark marriage plots of her novels we see Eliot wrestling - in art and in life - with themes of desire and sacrifice, motherhood and creativity, trust and disillusion, destiny and chance. Reading them afresh, Carlisle's searching new biography explores how marriage questions grow and change, and joins Eliot in her struggle to marry thought and feeling.

The libraries of George Eliot and George Henry Lewes
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ISBN: 0920604447 Year: 1981 Publisher: Victoria University of Victoria. English literary studies

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The George Eliot - George Henry Lewes library
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ISBN: 0824099311 9780824099312 Year: 1977 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Garland,

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The marriage question : George Eliot's double life
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ISBN: 9780374600457 0374600457 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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"A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage"-- In her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot and published her debut novel. Her life partner, George Lewes, was already married. Their relationship scandalized her contemporaries, yet she grew immeasurably within it. Carlisle shows how, through the immense ambition and dark marriage plots of her novels, Eliot wrestled in both art and in life with themes of desire and sacrifice, motherhood and creativity, trust and disillusion, destiny and chance. -- adapted from jacket

George Henry Lewes : a Victorian mind
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ISBN: 0674348745 Year: 1977 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard University Press,

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G. H. Lewes : a life
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ISBN: 0198128274 Year: 1991 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

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Biographic clinics
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Year: 1903 Publisher: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston's Son and Co.,


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George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies
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ISSN: 2372191X 23721901

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George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal devoted to exploring the writings, lives, interactions, and influences of the nineteenth-century literary and cultural figures, George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) and George Henry Lewes. The journal is published twice a year and is available in both print and electronic form.


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The complicity of friends
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ISBN: 1283640023 1611484197 9781611484199 9781611484182 1611484189 6613952524 9786613952523 9781283640022 Year: 2012 Publisher: Lanham, Md. Bucknell University Press

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The Complicity of Friends offers an entirely original perspective within which to appreciate four eminent Victorians: Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson. For the first time, I clarify the nature of Spencer's illness and demonstrate its repercussions in the lives and work of his three gifted friends.

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