George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

TV Movie, Documentary · 2002

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.

Starring

Mary Downes, Maureen Lipman, Mary Downes, Harriet Walter, Ginny Schiller, John Sessions, George Eliot, James Wilby, Steve Attridge, David Walliams

Director

Mary Downes