George Eliot: A Life in Five Characters (Omnibus)
Kathryn Hughes links George Eliot's characters and her life with biographer Philip Davis and readings by Juliet Stevenson.
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 ±«Óãtv Radio 4 in November 2019.
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