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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19950812
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GEORGE ELIOT: VOICE OF A CENTURY. By Frederick Karl. Norton; 768 pages; $30. HarperCollins; Pounds 25

WHEN George Eliot was born in Warwickshire in 1819, Jane Austen's last novel had just been published and Sir Walter Scott, one of Eliot's favourite authors, was in the middle of his prodigiously successful career. Austen's irony and her readiness to poke fun at her characters did not appeal to Eliot; she was drawn to Scott, not by the swashbuckling charms of "Kenilworth" and "Rob Roy", but by his presentation of the hard lives of the poor.

On her 20th birthday, she was ...

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