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Kathryn Hughes. George Eliot: The Last Victorian
GEORGE. ELIOT. The LAST VICTORIAN. KATHRYN HUGHES
Dedication
Contents
CHAPTER 1 ‘Dear Old Griff’ Early Years 1819–28
CHAPTER 2 ‘On Being Called a Saint’ An Evangelical Girlhood 1828–40
CHAPTER 3 ‘The Holy War’ Coventry 1840–1
CHAPTER 4 ‘I Fall Not In Love With Everyone’ The Rosehill Years 1841–9
CHAPTER 5 ‘The Land of Duty and Affection’ Coventry, Geneva and London 1849–51
CHAPTER 6 ‘The Most Important Means of Enlightenment’ Life at The Westminster Review 1851–2
CHAPTER 7 ‘A Man of Heart and Conscience’ Meeting Mr Lewes 1852–4
CHAPTER 8 ‘I Don’t Think She Is Mad’ Exile 1854–6
CHAPTER 9 ‘The Breath of Cows and the Scent of Hay’ Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede 1856–9
CHAPTER 10 ‘A Companion Picture of Provincial Life’ The Mill on the Floss 1859–60
CHAPTER 11 ‘Pure, Natural Human Relations’ Silas Marner and Romola 1860–3
CHAPTER 12 ‘The Bent of My Mind Is Conservative’ Felix Holt and The Spanish Gypsy 1864–8
CHAPTER 13 ‘Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings’ Middlemarch 1869–72
CHAPTER 14 ‘Full of the World’ Daniel Deronda1873–6
CHAPTER 15 ‘A Deep Sense of Change Within’ Death, Love, Death 1876–80
Epilogue
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author. George Eliot
Praise
Copyright
About the Publisher
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For my parentsAnne and John Hughesagain
Title Page
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We know nothing of the courtship. It is hard to imagine Robert Evans divulging much beyond the current cost of elm or the need to drain the top field. But this was not about romance. Evans offered the thirty-one-year-old Harriet the respectability of marriage without the need to leave her beloved mistress. In return, her ladylike manner promised usefully to soften his blunt ways and flat vowels. They married in 1801 and children followed quickly. Robert was born in 1802, Frances Lucy, shrewdly named for Mrs Parker-Newdigate, in 1805.
In the end, it was Harriet’s attachment to her mistress that killed her. In 1809 Mrs Parker-Newdigate went down with a fatal illness to which the heavily pregnant Harriet also succumbed. A baby girl, also Harriet, was born, but died shortly afterwards and was buried with her mother. In acknowledgement of her unique relation to them in both life and death, the Parker-Newdigates took the unusual step of adding Harriet’s name – ‘faithful friend and servant’ – to the family memorial stone in nearby Astley Church.
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