Download or read book George Eliot: The Last Victorian (Text Only) written by Kathryn Hughes and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England’s last great visionary and the first modern.