George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography by Frederick R. Karl
George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography

Frederick R. Karl

George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography

Frederick R. Karl

708 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Karl shows how Eliot's break from respectable womanhood by running off with the married George Henry Lewes allowed her to begin her career as the major British novelist of the nineteenth century. Often, she drew upon her own life to create her plo...

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