Life of George Eliot Browning Paperback Cambridge University Press 9781108040495

Life of George EliotAuthor(s): Oscar Browning\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108040495, 978-1108040495\nSynopsis\n'George Eliot' was the pseudonym of Marian Evans [tel], possibly the greatest of the Victorian novelists, whose works include The Mill on the Floss [tel], Middlemarch [tel] and Daniel Deronda [tel]. Her personal life was complex - she was an independent woman who challenged social conventions. Her friend, Eton master and historian Oscar Browning [tel], was moved to write this affectionate assessment of her life, and it was published in 1890, offering 'no claims but a friendship of fifteen years, and a deep and unswerving devotion to her mind and character'. Browning takes a chronological approach, focusing mainly on the beginnings of Eliot's writing career and on her novels, while adding recollections of their encounters. He also writes with candour about Eliot's relationship an.