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George Eliot : the last Victorian / Kathryn Hughes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999.Edition: 1st Farrar, Straus, and Giroux edDescription: xiii, 383 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0374161380 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR4681 .H84 1999
Contents:
'Dear old Griff': early years 1819-28 -- 'On being called a saint': an evangelical girlhood 1828-40 -- 'The Holy War: Coventry 1840-1 -- 'I fall not in love with everyone': The Rosehill years 1841-9 -- 'The land of duty and affection': Coventry, Geneva and London 1849-51 -- 'The most important means of enlightenment': life at The Westminster Review 1851-2 -- 'A man of heart and conscience': meeting Mr. Lewes 1852-4 -- 'I don't think she is mad': exile 1854-6 -- 'The breath of cows and the scent of hay': scenes of clerical life and Adam Bede 1856-9 -- 'A companion picture of provincial life': The mill on the Floss 1859-60 -- 'Pure, natural human relations': Silas Marner and Romola 1860-3 -- 'The bent of my mind is conservative': Felix Holt and The Spanish Gypsy 1864-8 -- 'Wise, witty and tender sayings': Middlemarch 1869-72 -- 'Full of the world': Daniel Deronda 1873-6 -- 'A deep sense of change within': death, love, death 1876-80.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks PR4681.H84 1999 1 Available 33710000817713

"First published in 1998 by Fourth Estate, Great Britain"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-374) and index.

WAR, NEWBERY,

'Dear old Griff': early years 1819-28 -- 'On being called a saint': an evangelical girlhood 1828-40 -- 'The Holy War: Coventry 1840-1 -- 'I fall not in love with everyone': The Rosehill years 1841-9 -- 'The land of duty and affection': Coventry, Geneva and London 1849-51 -- 'The most important means of enlightenment': life at The Westminster Review 1851-2 -- 'A man of heart and conscience': meeting Mr. Lewes 1852-4 -- 'I don't think she is mad': exile 1854-6 -- 'The breath of cows and the scent of hay': scenes of clerical life and Adam Bede 1856-9 -- 'A companion picture of provincial life': The mill on the Floss 1859-60 -- 'Pure, natural human relations': Silas Marner and Romola 1860-3 -- 'The bent of my mind is conservative': Felix Holt and The Spanish Gypsy 1864-8 -- 'Wise, witty and tender sayings': Middlemarch 1869-72 -- 'Full of the world': Daniel Deronda 1873-6 -- 'A deep sense of change within': death, love, death 1876-80.