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 ...

It is not healthy for one man – a wannabe king – to dominate the whole of government and subvert justice to exact personal revenge.

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 ...

“Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings.” George Eliot wrote those sentences in her 1872 masterpiece, Middlemarch, an examination of marriage ...