Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexual, religious and social rules of Victorian society. George Eliot: A Scandalous Life explores how the scandals and rumours that plagued her life, never defeated her will or her literary genius; and how, against all odds, she went on to write some of the world's greatest novels including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.
Top Cast
Maureen Lipman as Narrator
Harriet Walter as Mary Ann Evans
John Sessions as George Henry Lewes
James Wilby as Herbert Spencer
David Walliams as John Chapman
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