In 1854 he and Marian decided to live together, and did so until Lewes's death in 1878. Lewes was separated from his wife, but with no possibility of divorce. Having lost her Christian faith and thereby alienated her family, she moved to London and met Herbert Spencer (whom she nearly married, only he found her too 'morbidly intellectual') and the versatile man-of-letters George Henry Lewes. Through them she was commissioned to translate Strauss's Life of Jesus and met the radical publisher John Chapman, who, when he purchased the Westminster Review in 1851, made her his managing editor. In 1841 she moved to Coventry, and met Charles and Caroline Bray, local progressive intellectuals. In 1836 her mother died and Marian became her father's housekeeper, educating herself in her spare time. She attended schools in Nuneaton and Coventry, coming under the influence of evangelical teachers and clergymen. Live online lecture and seminar with Clare Walker Gore, the Open University and Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.Mary Ann (Marian) Evans was born in 1819 in Warwickshire. In this lecture, we will explore the novel as an experiment in literary realism, asking what is at stake for Eliot in her depiction of everyday provincial life. The novel richly rewards re-reading as one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century realism.
Adam Bede won great critical claim for its evocative depiction of rural life and vivid cast of characters. Out of the story of the carpenter Adam Bede’s love for flighty Hetty Sorrel, her passion for the careless young squire, and the tragic consequences of their mutual disillusionment, Eliot constructs a moving but unsentimental tale of moral crisis and redemption. In her first full-length novel, George Eliot offers a kind of manifesto for literary realism, declaring her commitment ‘to give the loving pains of a life to the faithful representing of commonplace things’, and to the ‘beauty … which lies in … the secret of deep human sympathy’.
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