George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
60 minutes
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.
Top Cast
Maureen Lipman
Narrator
Harriet Walter
Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
John Sessions
George Henry Lewes
James Wilby
Herbert Spencer
David Walliams
John Chapman
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Gossip
David Bamber
Gossip
Janine Duvitski
Gossip
Michael Culkin
Liggins Conspirator
Felicity Dean
Edith Simcox
Richard Dillane
John Cross
Trevor Ray
D'Albert Durade
Glynn Williams
Thornie
Adrian Schiller
Man