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Sep 4, 2023 · Yet George Eliot wasn’t legally married to George Lewes, who was separated from, but could not divorce, his wife, Agnes Jervis. George Eliot wasn’t always George Eliot, either: she...
May 8, 2014 · How did Eliot, who is often described as childless, know so well, and so exactly, what becoming a mother was like?
Sep 7, 2023 · A year and a half later, now 60, she took the surprising step, in an era when many frowned on second marriages, of getting legally married at last—to a friend and devoted admirer two decades her...
- Clare Carlisle
Apr 6, 2023 · Even the momentous decision to live openly with a married man — the love of her life, George Henry Lewes, was married and unable to divorce — owed something to a philosophical principle, in...
May 5, 2016 · After a long and happy relationship with George Lewes — never legalized because he was unable to divorce his first wife — Evans married John Cross, a man 20 years her junior. Cross had been the...
Dec 10, 2010 · When John Cross published his biography of his late wife, George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals, in 1885, he put paid to the assumption that Eliot's public appeal would live on...
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Best known for his brief marriage to George Eliot, John Cross (1840–1924) compiled this three-volume 'autobiography' of 1885 from his late wife's journals and letters. Eliot was never married to her long-term partner G. H. Lewes, and she courted further scandal when she married Cross, twenty years her junior, in 1880.
