George Eliots Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals (Paperback)

George Eliot

ISBN 10: 1108020070 / ISBN 13: 9781108020077

Editore: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010

Paperback. Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Walter Cross (18401924) 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 18581866, including Eliot's initial success in fiction and her travels in Italy, Holland, and along the Rhine. First published in 1885, this three-part 'autobiography' was assembled by John Cross from the letters and journals of his late wife, George Eliot. Though suppressing much in the desire to render an unconventional life 'respectable', the work remains an important initial insight into Eliot's personal and private life. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781108020077

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Compiled from letters and journals, this three-volume biography presents an intimate portrait of George Eliot in her own words.

Descrizione del libro: First published in 1885, this three-part 'autobiography' was assembled by John Cross from the letters and journals of his late wife, George Eliot. Though suppressing much in the desire to render an unconventional life 'respectable', the work remains an important initial insight into Eliot's personal and private life.

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Titolo: George Eliots Life, as Related in her ...
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
Legatura: Paperback
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