A Life of George Eliot (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

In this carefully detailed analysis of George Eliot’s life, Cooke  gives special  attention to early influences in her life on her work as novelist and poet:  her childhood, her education, her mother’s death, her changing religious beliefs, contemporary free-thinkers she knew, and the works of such writers as Lamb, Kant, Locke, Emerson, and Heine.