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George Eliot: A Life.
From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19961123
Author:
GEORGE ELIOT: A LIFE. By Rosemary Ashton. Hamish Hamilton; 480 pages; [Pounds] 25
LAST year there appeared arguably the worst biography of the decade: Frederick Karl's life of George Eliot. Rosemary Ashton's new book is one of the best, and it too concerns the great Victorian novelist whose "Mill on the Floss" is about to follow "Middlemarch" into television serialisation on the BBC.
George Eliot's was the kind of life biographers relish, and distort. The first to attempt it was her husband, John Cross, whose book appeared in 1885, five years after her death. They had been ...
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