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In Love with George Eliot

Kathy O’Shaughnessy

In Love with George Eliot
In Love with George Eliot

In Love with George Eliot

Kathy O’Shaughnessy

Paperback | English
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‘The portrait of the author is tender and fascinating; like Eliot, Kathy O’Shaughnessy is compassionate about her characters’ weakness … a superb portrait of an extraordinary woman.’



‘The portrait of the author is tender and fascinating; like Eliot, Kathy O’Shaughnessy is compassionate about her characters’ weakness … a superb portrait of an extraordinary woman.’



‘A sensitive, impeccably researched and deeply pleasurable debut novel ... As the best historical novels do, it absorbs the reader to such an extent that, even if they know the outline of the story, each page is a revelation.’



‘O’Shaughnessy’s subtle, compelling, intensely feminine portrait explores the inner life of her sensitive heroine with the fine emotional intelligence that makes George Eliot’s own novels so remarkable.’



‘Richly and sensitively described ... O’Shaughnessy does us the favour of reminding us what an underrated erotic writer Eliot is.’



‘An accomplished tribute to one of our greatest authors.’



‘A revealing debut novel … a fascinating read.’



‘This sensitive fictionalisation  … is thoroughly absorbing.’



‘The novelist enters where biographers fear to tread … There is no doubt that O’Shaughnessy has saturated herself in the most important biographical and critical literature on Eliot.’



‘Compelling ... a tender and haunting study.’



‘The Eliot strand predominates as if Eliot herself was dictating like a whispering ghost.’



‘O’Shaughnessy’s writing is full of delicious words ... and brilliant descriptions. She is full of keen insights into Evans’s character ... This is an astute, skilful book.’



‘Henry James was but one of many beguiled by Marian Evans (aka George Eliot) … In lucid, unshowy prose, O’Shaughnessy brings them all to life.’



‘A layered, tender portrait.’



‘Classy, beautifully written and richly imagined — a novel that opens a door onto the past.’



In Love with George Eliot is a feverishly intense and beautifully rendered first novel, especially in its detail and sensitivity, that brings to life the woman and the legend.’



In Love with George Eliot is a real pleasure to read, even if you haven’t read any of her novels.’



In Love with George Eliot is a clever, unconventional approach to the great novelist's life; it is easy to imagine that Marian Evans herself would have approved of the playful thoughtfulness with which Kathy O’Shaughnessy brings the private person behind George Eliot’s public success alive.’



‘She gives a new life to these long dead, overdressed people, writing of them with an attentive and loving eye, forgiving them and understanding. Her take on the central mystery of Eliot’s later life – marriage to Johnny Cross, a family friend to both her and Lewes and 20 years her junior, and on Cross’ suicide attempt on their Italian honeymoon – is painfully believable.’



‘In this beautifully imagined novel, the rich intellectual world in which Marian lived is brought alive.’ FOUR STARS



‘Crack this one open at the beach and get ready to become obsessed with the story of England’s greatest woman novelist.’



‘O’Shaughnessy crafts in her luminous debut an evocative portrait of English author George Eliot … passion and drama … Historical fiction fans won’t want to miss this.’



‘O’Shaughnessy's leisurely, thoroughly researched and sympathetic debut novel imagines some key periods in the life of Marian Evans, better known as novelist George Eliot … [A] record of the complex and often fraught emotional life of a notable novelist.’



‘At the beginning of her career, the words of her fiction became a kind of smoke screen for Marian Evans, whose journey from anonymous obscurity to worldwide fame under her masculine pen name is delicately charted in Kathy O’Shaughnessy’s debut novel, In Love with George Eliot. Working back and forth between the present-day world of fractious Eliot scholars and the 19th-century world of their emotionally fragile subject, O’Shaughnessy concentrates on the private ambitions and uncertainties of her characters, drawing on Eliot’s letters for inspiration.’



Kathy O’Shaughnessy has reviewed books for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, Financial Times, Independent, The Observer, TLS, New Statesman, The Spectator, and others. She has worked as Deputy Editor on the Literary Review, Arts & Books Editor of Vogue, Literary Editor of The European, and Deputy Editor of The Telegraph Arts & Books. Her stories have been published in Faber’s First Fictions, and she edited and introduced Drago Stambuk’s poems, Incompatible Animals.

Specifications

  • Publisher
    Scribe Publications
  • Pub date
    Sep 2020
  • Pages
    400
  • Theme
    Historical fiction
  • Dimensions
    198 x 129 mm
  • EAN
    9781912854752
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Language
    English

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