George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

Release Date: 2002-11-01

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.

Rating: 2.5 / 10

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