George Eliot: the last Victorian

'Dear old Griff': early years 1819-28 --

'On being called a saint': an evangelical girlhood 1828-40 --

'The Holy War: Coventry 1840-1 --

'I fall not in love with everyone': The Rosehill years 1841-9 --

'The land of duty and affection': Coventry, Geneva and London 1849-51 --

'The most important means of enlightenment': life at The Westminster Review 1851-2 --

'A man of heart and conscience': meeting Mr. Lewes 1852-4 --

'I don't think she is mad': exile 1854-6 --

'The breath of cows and the scent of hay': scenes of clerical life and Adam Bede 1856-9 --

'A companion picture of provincial life': The mill on the Floss 1859-60 --

'Pure, natural human relations': Silas Marner and Romola 1860-3 --

'The bent of my mind is conservative': Felix Holt and The Spanish Gypsy 1864-8 --

'Wise, witty and tender sayings': Middlemarch 1869-72 --

'Full of the world': Daniel Deronda 1873-6 --

'A deep sense of change within': death, love, death 1876-80.