02539cam a2200349 i 4500 924387126 TxAuBib 20230830120000.0 230219s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023003426 9780374600457 HRD 30.00 0374600457 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Carlisle, Clare, 1977-, author. The marriage question [BOOK] : George Eliot's double life / Clare Carlisle. First American edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. xx, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-357) and index. Setting sail -- Honeymoon -- Sanctity -- Vocation -- The world -- Motherhood -- Disillusion -- Success -- Philosophy -- Destiny -- The other shore. In her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot―an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Lewes―writer, philosopher, and married father of three. After “eloping” to Berlin in 1854, they lived together for twenty-four years: Eliot asked people to call her "Mrs Lewes" and dedicated each novel to her "Husband." Though they could not legally marry, she felt herself initiated into the "great experience" of marriage―"this double life, which helps me to feel and think with double strength." The relationship scandalized her contemporaries yet she grew immeasurably within it. Living at once inside and outside marriage, Eliot could experience this form of life―so familiar yet also so perplexing―from both sides. In The Marriage Question, Clare Carlisle reveals Eliot to be not only a great artist but also a brilliant philosopher who probes the tensions and complexities of a shared life. Provided by publisher. "Originally published in 2023 by Allen Lane, Great Britain" -Title page verso. 20230830. Eliot, George 1819-1880 Marriage. Eliot, George 1819-1880 Criticism and interpretation. Lewes, George Henry 1817-1878. Authors' spouses Great Britain Biography. English literature 19th century History and criticism.