George Eliot’s Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals

George Eliot

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511740176

Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Walter Cross (1840–1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of 1885 from his late wife's journals and letters. Eliot was never married to her long-term partner G. H. Lewes, and she courted further scandal when she married Cross, twenty years her junior, in the spring of 1880. While these volumes offer a valuable insight into Eliot's private reflections, what is perhaps most telling is the material left out or rewritten in Cross' efforts to lend his wife's unconventional life some respectability, which he does at the expense of what one reviewer described as Eliot's 'salt and spice'. George Eliot's Life will be of particular interest to scholars of nineteenth-century biography and literature. Volume 2 covers the years 1858–1866, including Eliot's initial success in fiction and her travels in Italy, Holland, and along the Rhine.

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Frontmatter
pp i-i

Epigraph
pp ii-ii

Frontispiece
pp iii-iii

George Eliot's Life
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE SECOND VOLUME
pp vii-viii

CHAPTER VIII - JANUARY 1858 TO DECEMBER 1858: Success of ‘Scenes of Clerical Life’–‘Adam Bede,’
pp 1-78

CHAPTER IX - JANUARY 1859 TO MARCH 1860:‘ The MiU on the Floss,’
pp 79-163

CHAPTER X - MARCH TO JUNE 1860: First Journey to Italy
pp 164-254

CHAPTER XI - JULY 1860 TO DECEMBER 1861: ‘Silas Marner’– ‘Eomola’ begun
pp 255-328

CHAPTER XII - JANUARY 1862 TO DECEMBER 1865: ‘Romola’–‘Felix Holt’
pp 329-418

CHAPTER XIII - JANUARY 1866 TO DECEMBER 1866: Tour in Holland and on the Rhine
pp 419-450

Miscellaneous Endmatter
pp 451-452

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