George Eliot
A concise introduction to Ashton’s literary-critical method and her long-standing engagement with George Eliot.
Author guide
Rosemary Ashton is an emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her scholarship focuses on nineteenth-century literature, intellectual and cultural history, Anglo-German relations, radical publishing, and figures including George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Dickens, and the Carlyles. She is also known for her studies of Victorian London and Bloomsbury.
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A concise introduction to Ashton’s literary-critical method and her long-standing engagement with George Eliot.

A highly accessible later work that combines biography, social history, and the public life of Victorian London.
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book series · ongoing
Oxford University Press series of concise scholarly biographies and intellectual portraits.
Book George Eliot · literary_criticism · 1983
book series · ongoing
Oxford University Press series of concise biographies based on entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Book George Eliot · biography · 2007
Outside the series
literary_criticism · 1980
history · 1986
biography · 1991
biography · 1996
biography · 1996
biography · 2002
cultural_history · 2006
cultural_history · 2012
history · 2017