The history of a writer : George Eliot and biographies -- Early years (1819-1849) -- London and George Lewes (1850-54) -- Marian Lewes and George Eliot (1855-59) -- Silas Marner and Romola (1860-64) -- Felix Holt, the radical and The Spanish gypsy (1865-69) -- Middlemarch (1870-72) -- Daniel Deronda (1873-76) -- Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1877-78) -- The final years : 1879 to Cross's life.