The Marriage Question: George Eliot'S Double Life,Used

The Marriage Question: George Eliot'S Double Life,Used

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A startling new portrait of George Eliot, the beloved novelist and a rare philosophical mind who explored the complexities of marriage.In her midthirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliotan author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Leweswriter, philosopher, and married father of three. After eloping to Berlin in 1854, they lived together for twentyfour years: Eliot asked people to call her 'Mrs Lewes' and dedicated each novel to her 'Husband.' Though they could not legally marry, she felt herself initiated into the 'great experience' of marriage'this double life, which helps me to feel and think with double strength.' The relationship scandalized her contemporaries yet she grew immeasurably within it. Living at once inside and outside marriage, Eliot could experience this form of lifeso familiar yet also so perplexingfrom both sides.In The Marriage Question, Clare Carlisle reveals Eliot to be not only a great artist but also a brilliant philosopher who probes the tensions and complexities of a shared life. Through the immense ambition and dark marriage plots of her novels, we see Eliot wrestlingin art and in lifewith themes of desire and sacrifice, motherhood and creativity, trust and disillusion, destiny and chance. Carlisle's searching new biography explores how marriage questions grow and change, and joins Eliot in her struggle to marry thought and feeling.Includes blackandwhite images

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