 |  | | | George Eliot | 12 Jan 2007 | | |
In January 1857, Blackwood’s Magazine published a short story called 'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton'. It had been submitted anonymously and there was soon growing speculation about who the author of this gritty tale of Midland’s country life could be. When it finally appeared in book form a year later, the author was revealed as George Eliot - which was, of course, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans. So, what made the thirty seven year old radical intellectual, who was living-in-sin, decide to take up her pen to write about the rural clergy?
Carolyn talks to Kathryn Hughes, biographer of George Eliot and Kathleen Adams, Secretary of the George Eliot Fellowship. | |
| | Retired? Downsizing? Moving home to be nearer the kids?We'd like to hear your stories about moving house |
|
