The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans : : George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction / / Rosemarie Bodenheimer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Bodenheimer, Rosemarie,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.) :; 7 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Frequently Cited Works --; Preface --; One. On Reading Letters --; Two. Constructing the Reader --; Three. Mary Ann Evans's Holy War --; Four. The Labor of Choice --; Five. The Outing of George Eliot --; Six. Ambition and Womanhood --; Seven. George Eliot's Stepsons --; Eight. Old and Young --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501721021; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501721021
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rosemarie Bodenheimer.

Bodenheimer defines the personal paradoxes that helped to shape Eliot's fictional characters and narrative style. Bodenheimer revisits pivotal episodes in Mary Ann Evans's life and career, including the "Holy War" through which she asserted her youthful religious skepticism; her decision to elope with the married writer George Henry Lewes; and her marriage with John Cross after Lewes's death. Bodenheimer also discusses the rumor campaign that led to the discovery that "George Eliot" was a woman, and she traces the trajectory of Eliot's impassioned conflict between her ambition and her womanhood.