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George Eliot's life through five of her characters.

With readings from the novels and letters by Juliet Stevenson

Kathryn Hughes draws out the intimate link between Eliot's characters and her life with the help of the author of a recent biography, Professor Philip Davis.

Omnibus of five parts.

1. Eliot's girlhood through Maggie from The Mill on the Floss
2. The morally serious young woman through Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch
3. The growth of the sympathetic novelist through Janet from Scenes from Clerical Life
4. The experience of step-parenthood through Silas Marner
5. The choices for Victorian women through Gwendolen Harleth in Daniel Deronda

With contributions from contemporary writers:

Tessa Hadley
Sarah Moss
Sathnam Sanghera
David Constantine
Kathy O'Shaughnessy

Producer: Beaty Rubens

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in November 2019.