Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life, New York: Penguin Press, 1996.

A recent biography of Eliot which approaches her life through her personal psychology, her writing and the political, social and intellectual context of Victorian England. Each of her major works is examined in detail.

Beer, Patricia. Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, New York, Barnes and Noble, 1974.

Examines key female characters in the novels of prominent female writers of 19th Century England.

Dickerson, Vanessa D. Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural, Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1996.

Examines Victorian Era fiction by women, such as Charlotte and Emily Bronte and George Eliot, which includes elements of the supernatural. Dickerson examines the relationship between the supernatural and issues of gender in the lives and work of these authors.

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