George Eliot in Germany, 1854,55

From 1854 to 1855, George Eliot spent eight months in Germany, a period that marked the start of her life with George Lewes. Though Eliot documented this journey more extensively than any other, it has remained an under-researched part of Eliot''s biography. In her meticulously documented and engaging book, Gerlinde Röder-Bolton draws on Eliot''s own writings, as well as on extensive original res...