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Article: The male villain as domestic tyrant in Daniel Deronda: Victorian masculinities and the cultural context of George Eliot's novel.(Critical Essay)
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- The Journal of Men's Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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In her capacity as "Belles Lettres" reviewer for the "Contemporary Literature" section of the Westminster, Marianne Evans--who later adopted the pseudonym George Eliot and became one of the most popular and influential British novelists of the 19th century--passed over the poet's reputed "obscurity" and published a favorable review of Robert Browning's Men and Women in January 1856. Later, Browning became a friend of Eliot and her companion George Lewes, occasionally visiting their Priory home after returning to England from Florence in 1862, when Eliot was completing Romola, her historical novel set in 15th-century Florence. The friendship, which grew in the mid-1860s, ...