Before George Eliot

Fionnuala Dillane revisits the first decade of Marian Evans''s working life to explore the influence of the periodical press on her emergence as George Eliot and on her subsequent responses to fame. This interdisciplinary study discusses the significance of Evans''s work as a journalist, editor and serial-fiction writer in the periodical press from the late 1840s to the late 1850s and positions th...