{"product_id":"jane-austen-and-george-eliot","title":"Jane Austen and George Eliot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn October\n1851, a chance meeting in a Piccadilly bookshop changed the course of literary\nhistory. For it was here that Mary Ann Evans, an unworldly young scholar, was\nintroduced to the love of her life, the critic George Lewes. Encouraged and\nsupported by Lewes, Evans became the queen of literary London under her pen\nname, George Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn nurturing\nEliot's talent, Lewes drew inspiration from the works of an unfashionable\nauthor of the previous generation by the name of Jane Austen. On the face of\nit, Austen and Eliot had little in common. Jane Austen was a genteel spinster\nwho spent her life in Hampshire, painting Regency domestic dramas with delicate\nirony and unfailing charm. George Eliot, meanwhile, was a radical intellectual\nwho lived scandalously with a married man, travelled widely in Europe and\ndocumented with stirring realism the social upheavals of her age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd yet, when\nGeorge Eliot embarked on her career as an author in the late 1850s, the works\nof Jane Austen were at her side, feeding her imagination. Separated by time,\ncircumstance and temperament, the two writers nevertheless had a vital impetus\nin common: to prove the value of a woman's eye in a man's world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePacked with\nquotes from letters, diaries and the nation's favourite novels, this lively\nhistory traces the surprising connections between two of our brightest literary\nstars and shows, for the first time, how each can be illuminated by the other's\nlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Biteback Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54260457996632,"sku":"9781785909542","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781785909542.jpg?v=1777869021","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/jane-austen-and-george-eliot","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}