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Article: George Eliot - a writer of wrongs; THE NUNEATON-BORN NOVELIST WHO MADE IT TO THE TOP IN A MALE-DOMINATED VICTORIAN SOCIETY LIVED A WAYWARD LIFE.(Features)
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- November 21, 2002
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Byline: Marion McMullen
THE enduring appeal of Warwickshire writer George Eliot continues to grow and she is set to reach new fans with the lavish new TV adaptation of her last novel Daniel Deronda. TV writer MARION McMULLEN looks back on the scandalous life of the controversial writer.
BY GEORGE! She raised a few eyebrows in her time. . ...Nuneaton-born novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her age who continually broke the sexual, religious and social rules of Victorian society.
She was one of the greatest minds of her age and yet she risked ...