George Eliot: A Scandalous Life (2002)
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.
- Released
- 2002-11-01
- Genres
- TV Movie, Documentary
- Runtime
- 60 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Mary Downes
- TMDB rating
- 4.0/10 from 5 votes
Cast
- Maureen Lipman as Narrator
- Harriet Walter as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
- John Sessions as George Henry Lewes
- James Wilby as Herbert Spencer
- David Walliams as John Chapman
- Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Gossip
- David Bamber as Gossip
- Janine Duvitski as Gossip
- Michael Culkin as Liggins Conspirator
- Felicity Dean as Edith Simcox
- Richard Dillane as John Cross
- Trevor Ray as D'Albert Durade
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