Illustrations

1. Robert Evans, engraving from J. W. Cross’s George Eliot’s Life, published by William Blackwood & Sons, 1885.

2. Photograph of Isaac Evans, courtesy of Warwickshire County Libraries.

3. Photograph of South Farm, Arbury, courtesy of Warwickshire County Libraries.

4. Griff House, engraving from J. W. Cross’s George Eliot’s Life.

5. Cara Bray, née Hennell, miniature by Sara Hennell (1833), courtesy of Coventry City Libraries.

6. Photograph of Sara Hennell, courtesy of Warwickshire County Libraries.

7. Rosehill, Coventry, engraving from J. W. Cross’s George Eliot’s Life.

8. Photograph of Charles Bray, courtesy of Canon Michael Hennell.

9. Diagram of a phrenological bust, courtesy of the Mary Evans Picture Library.

10. Portrait of George Eliot by Cara Bray (1842), courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.

11. Portrait of George Eliot by François D’Albert Durade (1850), courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.

12. An early photograph of George Eliot, courtesy of Coventry City Libraries.

13. Photograph of Charles Christian Hennell, courtesy of Canon Michael Hennell.

14. Portrait of Dr Robert Brabant, courtesy of Canon Michael Hennell.

15. Self-portrait by François D’Albert Durade, courtesy of the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva.

16. Portrait of John Chapman, courtesy of City of Nottingham Museums: Castle Museum and Art Gallery.

17. Portrait of Herbert Spencer, courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.

18. George Eliot, from a drawing by Samuel Laurence, 1860 (misdated 1957), courtesy of the Mistress and Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge.

19. Portrait of George Eliot by Frederic Burton (1865), courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.

20. Photograph of George Eliot by Mayall of Regent Street (1858), courtesy of Hulton Getty Picture Library.

21. Sketch of George Henry Lewes, Agnes Lewes and Thornton Hunt by William Thackeray, courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.

22. Photograph of George Henry Lewes with Pug (1859), courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.

23. Photograph of Holly Lodge, Wandsworth, courtesy of the Hulton Getty Picture Library.

24. The old mill at Arbury, watercolour, courtesy of the Mary Evans Picture Library.

25. Portrait of John Blackwood, courtesy of the George Eliot Fellowship.

26. G. H. Lewes, engraving from the Illustrated London News, courtesy of the Mary Evans Picture Library.

27. Photograph of the Priory, Regent’s Park, courtesy of the Hulton Getty Picture Library.

28. The drawing room at the Priory, engraving from J. W. Cross’s George Eliot’s Life.

29. Barbara Leigh Smith as Bodichon, drawing by Samuel Lawrence (1861), courtesy of the Mistress and Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge.

30. Romola, illustration for the first edition by Frederic Leighton, courtesy of Time, Inc./Mansell/Katz.

31. The Heights, Whitley, engraving from a sketch by Helen Allingham from J. W. Cross’s George Eliot’s Life.

32. Drawing of George Eliot by Princess Louise on her concert programme (1877), courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

33. Photograph of John Cross, courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.