The ‘double life’ of the title refers to Eliot’s relationship with George Lewes, the married man with whom she lived for nearly a quarter of a century. CC looks at the ways in which this scandalous shared life informed her novels.
The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life
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Most lives are untidy, and mine is no exception... She made herself a success in Fleet Street when journalism was still a very male domain, edited Elizabeth David and inspired the look - if ... read more
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A compelling portrait of the writer and her engagement with her own world. Constructed as a series of essays on art, memory, painting, rank, property, appearance, etc., this is immensely rea... read more
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The interviews underpinning this magnificent, substantial biography include many with Stoppard himself.
Tom Stoppard: A Life
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Shapiro's light touch never undermines his scholarship. Who knew that Shakespeare could be so controversial in the C21st?
Shakespeare in a Divided America
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