George Eliot wrote those sentences in her 1872 masterpiece, Middlemarch, an examination of marriage unmatched by any other. ... the courtship-centered drama, ...

Jessica Chastain‘s Freckle Films has optioned the movie rights to Dinitia Smith’s historical drama “The Honeymoon: A Novel of George Eliot.”. Smith’s novel, published in 2016, recounts ...

BOOK OF THE WEEK THE MARRIAGE QUESTION: GEORGE ELIOT'S DOUBLE LIFE by Clare Carlisle (Allen Lane £25, 384pp). It had all the drama of an illicit teenage elopement. At dawn on June 20, 1854 ...

This struggle to see others is the moral drama of Middlemarch, and of life. Eliot never stops resisting the autocracy of the self; what Copernicus was to ­geocentricity, she is to egocentricity.

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.

The company is regarded as having a Midas touch for creating hits in the costume drama genre. Eliot's 1871 classic has never been adapted for the big screen, perhaps due to the complexity of its ...

George Eliot may have been born in the last year of George III’s reign, but her life story reads like a 1970s feminist coming-of-age tale. ... And throughout all of this spectacular drama, ...

George Eliot had no doubts, at any rate; if impressionism, before she laid down her pen, had already begun to he talked about, it would have made no difference with her — she would have had no ...

Henry James called her a ‘great, horse-faced bluestocking’. On the 200th anniversary of her birth, we celebrate George Eliot, a literary trailblazer with an endless appetite for ideas, living ...