When George Eliot agreed (reluctantly, by all accounts) to have her portrait made in 1865, she surely never imagined that her face would be forever linked with her published works. Yet today when we ...

“A marriage is so hideously private,” the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch wrote in 1978. “Whoever illicitly draws back that curtain may well be stricken, and in some way that he can least ...

A new biography examines how the novelist chose to make her life, as well as her fiction and art, outside the conventions of the marriage plot. In an anonymously published essay, “Silly Novels by Lady ...

George Eliot’s celebrated quote on “two human souls” continues to resonate for its powerful vision of love as companionship, ...