George eliot biography amazon

“…this learned, adventurous new biographer has changed the landscape of George Eliot studies.” (The George Eliot Review, 1 November 2012)

“Clean prose and relatively minimal endnotes make the book accessible to undergraduates.

George eliot biography amazon

Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (Choice, 1 October 2012)

“Henry provides a useful reminder that that old-fashioned pejorative, adulteress, might have been applied to Eliot as well as to Agnes, and she provides a sensitive analysis of the novels in the light of that insight.” (The New Yorker, 6 August 2012)

“Driven neither by hero-worship or spite, Henry's "critical biography" demonstrates what treasure there is still to be found in even the most worked-over subjects.

The trick is to ask the questions that everyone else assumed had been answered years ago.” (The Guardian, 2 June 2012)

“Such insights fill this book, which shows penetrating intelligence from first to last. Nancy Henry has managed, seamlessly but always