List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER 1
‘Dear Old Griff’
Early Years 1819–28
CHAPTER 2
‘On Being Called a Saint’
An Evangelical Girlhood 1828–40
CHAPTER 3
‘The Holy War’
Coventry 1840–1
CHAPTER 4
‘I Fall Not In Love With Everyone’
The Rosehill Years 1841–9
CHAPTER 5
‘The Land of Duty and Affection’
Coventry, Geneva and London 1849–51
CHAPTER 6
‘The Most Important Means of Enlightenment’
Life at The Westminster Review 1851–2
CHAPTER 7
‘A Man of Heart and Conscience’
Meeting Mr Lewes 1852–4
CHAPTER 8
‘I Don’t Think She Is Mad’
Exile 1854–6
CHAPTER 9
‘The Breath of Cows and the Scent of Hay’
Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede 1856–9
CHAPTER 10
‘A Companion Picture of Provincial Life’
The Mill on the Floss 1859–60
CHAPTER 11
‘Pure, Natural Human Relations’
Silas Marner and Romola 1860–3
CHAPTER 12
‘The Bent of My Mind Is Conservative’
Felix Holt and The Spanish Gypsy 1864–8
CHAPTER 13
‘Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings’
Middlemarch 1869–72
CHAPTER 14
‘Full of the World’
Daniel Deronda 1873–6
CHAPTER 15
‘A Deep Sense of Change Within’
Death, Love, Death 1876–80
EPILOGUE
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
