George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (of 3)
George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals, was arranged and edited by her husband J. W. Cross and published in 1885, four years after her death. This first of three volumes opens with a sketch of her childhood and then lets Mary Ann Evans speak through her letters and journals: the years at Griff, the Coventry circle in which she lost her evangelical faith and translated Strauss's Life of Jesus, her father's death, a stay in Geneva, work in London on the Westminster Review, her union with George Henry Lewes, their months in Germany and, at Richmond, the writing of Scenes of Clerical Life and the adoption of her pen name. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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