<p>In 'George Eliot', Mathilde Blind offers a penetrating study into the life and works of one of the Victorian era's most profound novelists, born Mary Ann Evans yet known by her pen name. Writing with a vibrant appreciation of Eliot's intellectualism and psychological insight, Blind evaluates her subject's contributions to literature within the context of nineteenth-century societal expectations and the prevailing currents of realism. The book ...