The Journals Of George Eliot

The Journals of George Eliot publishes for the first time the entire text ofthe surviving journals of the great Victorian novelist and constitutes a newtext by ... » 

The Journals of George Eliot publishes for the first time the entire text ofthe surviving journals of the great Victorian novelist and constitutes a newtext by her the closest she came to autobiography. The journals span her lifefrom 1854 when she entered into a commonlaw union with George Henry Lewes toher death in 1880 revealing the professional writer George Eliot as well asthe remarkable woman Marian Evans. Many aspects of her writing life areilluminated such as the separation of George Eliot and the account of herworks public reception from her private self at the time she began towrite fiction. The journals present a George Eliot of many moods not only theserious sybilline figure so admired in her later years. The editions extensiveapparatus includes a chronology introduction headnotes to each diary and anannotated index supplying valuable contextual and explanatory information. «