George Eliot: A Life in Five Characters

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George Eliot: A Life in Five Characters: Episode 1

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George Eliot's real life through five of her fictional characters - 1.Maggie Tulliver

George Eliot's real life through five of her fictional characters.
Kathryn Hughes hears from writer Tessa Hadley and  biographer Philip Davis about Maggie from Mill on the Floss

George Eliot -  notable among Victorian novelists not only for her books but also for her personal life-story - explored through five of her fictional characters 
1.Maggie Tulliver

It's sometimes said that George Eliot never wrote an autobiography because she had written her own life into her key characters.

Presenter Kathryn Hughes hears from contemporary writer Tessa Hadley and recent Eliot biographer Philip Davis about Maggie Tulliver from Mill on the Floss: how much of the story of Maggie, a clever, tempestuous girl with a rigid and less-gifted brother, growing up in the West Midlands with an adoring father, was inspired by Eliot's own upbringing?  

With readings from the novel by Juliet Stevenson

Producer: Beaty Rubens

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Five contemporary writers paint a multi-faceted portrait of this great Victorian novelist.

Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Eliot, five contemporary writers paint a multi-faceted portrait of this great but perhaps less familiar of Victorian novelists.

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