Nancy Henry is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She is the author of George Eliot and the British Empire (2002), the Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot (2008), and co–editor of Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Culture (2009).

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Preface

1. The History of a Writer: George Eliot and Biographies

2. Early Years (1819–1849)

3. London and George Lewes (1850–54)

4. Marian Lewes and George Eliot (1855–59)

5. Silas Marner and Romola (1860–64)

6. Felix Holt, the Radical and The Spanish Gypsy (1865–69)

7. Middlemarch (1870–72)

8. Daniel Deronda (1873–76)

9. Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1877–78)

10. The Final Years: 1879 to Cross′s Life

Works Cited

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