In Love with George Eliot

A Novel

By: Kathy O’Shaughnessy

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's Summary

Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England’s greatest woman novelist as you’ve never read it before.

Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society, and women rarely deign to visit her. In secret, though, she has begun writing fiction under the pseudonym George Eliot. As Adam Bede’s fame grows, curiosity rises as to the identity of its mysterious writer. Gradually it becomes apparent that the moral genius Eliot is none other than the disgraced woman living with Lewes.

Now Evans’ tremendous celebrity begins. The world falls in love with her. She is the wise and great writer, sent to guide people through the increasingly secular, rudderless century, and an icon to her progressive feminist peers - with whom she is often in disagreement. Public opinion shifts. Her scandalous cohabitation is forgiven. But this idyll is not secure and cannot last. When Lewes dies, Evans finds herself in danger of shocking the world all over again.

Meanwhile, in another rudderless century, two women compete to arrive at an interpretation of Eliot as writer and as woman...Everyone who has thrilled at being shown the world anew by George Eliot will thrill again at her presence, complex and compelling, here. 

©2019 Kathy O’Shaughnessy (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

An excellent novel !

Having read most of George Eliot’s books , it was especially interesting to read this well researched and most enjoyable novel based on her life .
The author captured her brilliance , humanity , nuances of her personality and relationships.
Kay mc Donogh .

Interesting novel on Eliot with a mixture of fact and fiction.

Clearly well researched and very readable. I was especially interested in how she dealt with John Cross. One got the essence of the dynamism of George Henry Lewis and the brilliance of Mary Ann Evans. I very much enjoyed it.