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Critically Flawed Biography

Beryl Gray GEORGE ELIOT: WOMAN OF CONTRADICTIONS by Ina Taylor Weidenfeld, £14.95, pp.255 A s everyone knows, 'George Eliot' is a nom de plume, invented by Marian Evans (or Mrs......

Method In His Madness

William Scammell W. B. YEATS by A. Norman Jeffares Hutchinson, £16.95, pp.3 74 L ast year saw a flurry of new books on Eliot, to mark the centenary of his birth. This year it is......