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George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

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Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexual, religious and social rules of Victorian society. George Eliot: A Scandalous Life explores how the scandals and rumours that plagued her life, never defeated her will or her literary genius; and how, against all odds, she went on to write some of the world's greatest novels including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.

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Maureen Lipman Narrator Harriet Walter Mary Ann Evans / George El John Sessions George Henry Lewes James Wilby Herbert Spencer David Walliams John Chapman Barbara Leigh-Hunt Gossip