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School can turn classic books into a chore. Rereading Eliot or Austen or Shakespeare as we grow older, we can see how we have grown as imaginative, moral beings.
In George Eliot’s masterpiece of 19th century realism, characters are confronted with the limits of their individual capacities and visions.
Henry James called her a ‘great, horse-faced bluestocking’. On the 200th anniversary of her birth, we celebrate George Eliot, a literary trailblazer with an endless appetite for ideas, living in a patriarchal time.
Born the same year as Queen Victoria, Eliot faced similar life choices to many young women today
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Professor of Literary Studies, UNSW
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Researcher, School of Art, Communication and English, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Literature, Western Civilisation Program, Australian Catholic University