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George Eliot: A Scandalous Life (2002)
Directed by Mary Downes
Overview
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.
Length 60 minutes
Actors
Maureen Lipman | Harriet Walter | John Sessions | James Wilby | David Walliams | Barbara Leigh-Hunt | David Bamber | Janine Duvitski | Michael Culkin | Felicity Dean | Richard Dillane | Trevor Ray | Glynn Williams | Adrian Schiller