When George Eliot agreed (reluctantly, by all accounts) to have her portrait made in 1865, she surely never imagined that her face would be forever linked with her published works. Yet today when we ...

A new biography examines how the novelist chose to make her life, as well as her fiction and art, outside the conventions of the marriage plot. In an anonymously published essay, “Silly Novels by Lady ...

“A marriage is so hideously private,” the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch wrote in 1978. “Whoever illicitly draws back that curtain may well be stricken, and in some way that he can least ...

Becoming George” might have been the title of a new play about the young womanhood of another great female novelist; but ...

The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life; by Clare Carlisle; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 400 pp., $30.00 In 1855, Eliot wrote to a friend: “If there be any one subject on which I feel no ...

New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead first read George Eliot's "Middlemarch" at age 17, when she was an ambitious schoolgirl studying for entrance exams to Oxford. She recalls identifying "completely" with ...

Bird Grove is a George Eliot origin story that doesn’t quite carry itself without the title of its famous heroine. Though Eliot would become one of the greatest writers of the 19th century, we meet ...