George Eliot`s Masterpiece `Middlemarch` Was Shaped, Says Novelist Jennifer Egan, By Eliot`s Unconventional Love Life
(ArtsJournal)

Eliot, whose non-pen-name was Mary Ann Evans, lived for decades with her partner, whose open marriage meant that when his wife had a baby with a different man, he was fine with it (and supported the baby). `Lewes´s legal wife went on to have three more children with her lover, all of whom Evans and […]