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GEORGE ELIOT

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Radical or Conservative?
Ϯ LAURENCE LERNER discusses a new biography of George Eliot by Gordon Haight
He asks what light it throws on her circle and her personality and in particular whether it shows her as radical or conservative in her sympathies. He also raises the question of why we read biographies: to understand the novelist's books, or her age. or her ideas-or simply out of idle curiosity?

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Laurence Lerner
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George Eliot
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Gordon Haight
Source: Radio Times

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