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Article: Introducing Mrs Lewes
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- New Statesman
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- June 22, 2009
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Introducing Mrs Lewes George Eliot: Novelist, Lover, Wife Brenda Maddox HarperPress, 242pp, £14.99
How often does a biography make you think better of a writer? Even those whose works leave us inspired or reverent are likely to have a closet full of moth-eaten principles. George Eliot, however, really did embody the great-hearted view of life that shone through her work, and Brenda Maddox's biography makes this clear. It is the latest in HarperPress's series of Eminent Lives, short biographies that aren't meant to provide a complete account, but rather to whet the appetite for one, which this certainly does.
Maddox should not have trusted her memory for the plot of Adam Bede - Hetty Sorrel ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Lewes, George Henry
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre;
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... ... of the actor (Charles) Lee Lewes (1740–1803 ... at the Lyceum, as were all Lewes's other plays except Buckstone ... produced at the Olympic. Lewes, who in 1854 began a lifelong liaison with the novelist George Eliot, was the founder and editor ...
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