Based on the life of George Eliot, famed author of "Middlemarch," this captivati
ng account of Eliot s passions and tribulations explores the nature of love in i
ts many guises
Dinitia Smith s spellbinding novel recounts George Eliot s hone
ymoon in Venice in June 1880 following her marriage to a handsome young man twen
ty years her junior. When she agreed to marry John Walter Cross, Eliot was recov
ering from the death of George Henry Lewes, her beloved companion of twenty-six
years. Eliot was bereft: left at the age of sixty to contemplate profound questi
ons about her physical decline, her fading appeal, and the prospect of lonelines
s.
