Published soon after George Eliot’s death, this study follows Mary Ann Evans from her Warwickshire childhood through her translations of Strauss and Feuerbach, her work on the Westminster Review and her life with George Henry Lewes, to the novels from Scenes of Clerical Life onward. Blind spoke with her brother Isaac and with old neighbours of the family.
A sympathetic early biography by a poet who admired her subject’s mind. Download the free EPUB.