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A Russian View of George Eliot

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

by Sofia Kovalevskya
Compiled by Gabriel Woolf from the translation by Raymond Chapman and Eleonora Gottlieb
Read by Maureen O'Brien

In the early 1870s, a young Russian scientist visited George Eliot in her St John's Wood home. In these recollections she describes the writer's charm, her relationship with the two men who shared her life, and her view of some themes recurring in her works.

(See also Wed 7.45 pm, R4)

Contributors

Author:
Sofia Kovalevskya
Compiler:
Gabriel Woolf
Translator:
Raymond Chapman
Translator:
Eleonora Gottlieb
Reader:
Maureen O'Brien
Producer:
Jenyth Worsley
Source: Radio Times

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