Famous Authors: George Eliot (1996)

Synopsis of Famous Authors: George Eliot

This documentary is part of a series that explores the life and works of some of the greatest writers in the English language. This episode looks at George Eliot, the pen name that Mary Ann Evans used to protect herself from sexism. Born into the repressive Victorian Age, Eliot was unconventional and iconoclastic. She took a man's pen name; she rejected the prevailing notion of Christianity in favor of her own brand of humanism; and she lived for years with an unhappily married writer named George Henry Lewes. A woman of high intellect, she edited the "Westminster Review", and wrote her classic novels, "Silas Marner", and "Middlemarch". Presaging the psychological movement of the coming century, she was deeply insightful about the nature of unconscious impulses. Using diaries, letters, and illustrations, this film shows George Eliot to be a woman ahead of her time. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, Rovi

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30 mins

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