Back to home page - News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

not-for-profit - a workers'co-op - committed to social justice | 96 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4HY - 0151 708 7270

In Love with George Eliot

by Kathy O'Shaughnessy - £9.99  Scribe Publications (2020)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781912854752 | ISBN 10: 1912854759

A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR.
 
Who was the real George Eliot?
 
In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England's greatest woman novelist as you've never read it before.
 
Marian Evans has scandalised polite society.
 
She lives in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes, but writes in secret under the pseudonym George Eliot. Gradually, it becomes apparent that the genius Eliot is none other than Evans, the disgraced woman. Her tremendous celebrity begins, and prior indiscretions are forgiven. But when Lewes dies, Evans finds herself in danger of shocking the world all over again.
 
Meanwhile, from one rudderless century to another, two women compete to interpret Eliot as writer and as woman ...

(Price & availability last checked: September 2020)

This website can't tell you if we have this book in the shop or not - to ask, phone us or use the enquiry link below. (We can order most books within 7-10 days, subject to availability.)
  

Featured book: Recommended Fiction & Poetry for Yuletide 2020!,
In booklists: Writers by Surname - O, Historical Fiction, Books About Books!,
In categories: Fiction, History & Biography, Humour, Gifts & Seasonal, Poetry & Writing,

© News From Nowhere Co-operative Ltd IP24524R 2004-2024 | Privacy policy | Contact | return to top of page