Professor Juliette Atkinson is Professor of English at University College London. Her books include Victorian Biography Reconsidered (2010), French Novels and the Victorians (2017), and editions of The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, and Jane Eyre for Oxford World's Classics. She is also the Victorian-Present editor for the Review of English Studies.

• 1: Gossip 2: Realism 3: Sympathy 4: Cognition 5: Meliorism 6: Afterlife Epilogue

A fresh a lively introduction to George Eliot's life and work which will appeal as much to those who are familiar with the subject as to those who are approaching the novelist for the first time... This Introduction is rich in astute insights and observations often formulated with memorable neatness.

Professor Juliette Atkinson is Professor of English at University College London. Her books include Victorian Biography Reconsidered (2010), French Novels and the Victorians (2017), and editions of The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, and Jane Eyre for Oxford World's Classics. She is also the Victorian-Present editor for the Review of English Studies.

• 1: Gossip 2: Realism 3: Sympathy 4: Cognition 5: Meliorism 6: Afterlife Epilogue

A fresh a lively introduction to George Eliot's life and work which will appeal as much to those who are familiar with the subject as to those who are approaching the novelist for the first time... This Introduction is rich in astute insights and observations often formulated with memorable neatness.

Professor Juliette Atkinson is Professor of English at University College London. Her books include Victorian Biography Reconsidered (2010), French Novels and the Victorians (2017), and editions of The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, and Jane Eyre for Oxford World's Classics. She is also the Victorian-Present editor for the Review of English Studies.

• 1: Gossip 2: Realism 3: Sympathy 4: Cognition 5: Meliorism 6: Afterlife Epilogue

A fresh a lively introduction to George Eliot's life and work which will appeal as much to those who are familiar with the subject as to those who are approaching the novelist for the first time... This Introduction is rich in astute insights and observations often formulated with memorable neatness.