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.

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.

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.