Readers unfamiliar with the life story of Victorian novelist George Eliot might find Dinitia Smith’s historical novel The Honeymoon startling. Did the author of Middlemarch, born in 1819 to a land ...

Susan David Bernstein
Susan David Bernstein is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf (2013).