George Eliot: Her Life and Books

by Gerald Bullett

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292 pages, Hardcover

First published December 10, 1971

About the author

Gerald William (December 30, 1893 - January 3, 1958) was a British novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote both supernatural fiction and some children's literature.

He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. During World War II he worked for the BBC in London, and after the war was a radio broadcaster.

Reviews

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

George Eliot, (Marian Evans), was a quiet, voracious reader with a close relationship with her father, in the small Midlands town. She was considered not a pretty girl, but very intellectual. Her father invested in an education not often afforded to women. Eliot went to London, and made a name for herself as an editor nd contributor of The Westminter Review. she lived in a home with with the founder John Chapman, and fell in love with him, evidence of her need to be loved. She left after awhile, as John Chapman already had not only one wife, but also a mistress living under one roof. Next George Lewes came into her life, her twenty years with Lewes, who couldn't not marry her, was for both of them a true marriage, and not a rebellion to her evangelical upbringing. They never wavered in true devotion and respect for each other, and out of this came her novels that made her famous. She stated that she used a male pen name to ensure her works would be taken seriously and escape the stereotype of women only writing light hearted romances. In 1872 Middlemarch was described as the greatest novel in English language.

This is just a brief biography (256 pp.) of her life. I look forward to reading a large biography entitled George Eliot: Voice of A Century, A Biography by Frederick R. Karl, which is 644 pages.