George Eliot - A Life

''This richly enjoyable biography of the great Victorian novelist reminds us how truly revolutionary was George Eliot... [Ashton] provides luminously sane readings of the marvellous novels.'' A.N. Wilson, Evening Standard

''Excellent... Ashton cites Eliot''s achievement in a literary landscape which moves from Scott and George Sand to Dickens, Tennyson and Browning... a fluent, vivid book... it makes one thrill again to the breadth of Eliot''s genius and the passionate, vulnerable nature that accompanied her wide-ranging mind.'' Jenny Uglow, Independent on Sunday

''An extremely impressive work... the George Eliot who emerges from Professor Ashton''s book is a remarkable woman of exceptional integrity whose life expresses the spirit of the Victorian age, even as it goes against the very grain of it.'' Susie Boyt, Sunday Express