George Eliot was not exactly childless, ... My father taught me about jazz, poetry, and philosophy, but he couldn’t show me how to be Black and a Red Sox fan. By Michael Thomas.

Clare Carlisle’s principal achievement in The Marriage Question—a richly textured and absorbing biographical study—is to reveal how, over the course of her novels, essays and poetry, George Eliot ...

George Eliot's philosophy is central to her fiction. Image: CSU archives/ Everett Collection/Bridgeman Images. ... the German Romantics refashioned his image: the poet Novalis described Spinoza as a ...

Eliot’s lover, George Henry Lewes (Woodcut by S. T., 1878, after Elliott & Fry). Wellcome Collection., CC BY-NC-SA They set up home together, and while she saw her life-partnership with G. H ...