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The Marriage Question

by Clare Carlisle

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · March 13, 2023

George Eliot and married life

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A biography of George Eliot by philosopher and writer Clare Carlisle, which places the question of marriage at the centre of Eliot's art and life, exploring how she scandalised Victorian society by living with a married man.

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