George Eliot - Literature History DVD NEW

George Eliot, author of 'Adam Bede', 'The Mill on the Floss', 'Silas Marner', 'Middlemarch' and 'Daniel Deronda', achieved mass popularity (Queen Victoria was among her readership), and was acclaimed by her literary contemporaries, including Tolstoy and Henry James.

In contrast, Marian Evans flouted Victorian conventions by living with a man she was unable to marry, and by ceasing to attend church. She was refused entry to Victorian society, she was virtually banished by her family, and she never again saw the countryside of her youth.

This programme tells the story of Marian Evans, from her pious Midland childhood, through her development into an independent minded academic, before emerging as the novelist George Eliot. She transformed the novel from a form of entertainment, to a social critique incorporating serious moral judgements and faithful representations of commonplace things.