Released:
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.

Director:
Mary Downes

Runtime:
1h 0min

Genre:
TV Movie, Documentary

• 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