Showing The World Before Her by Deborah Weisgall

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-12-1 Pages: 278 Publisher:. Houghton Mifflin Marian Evans - who writes under the pen name George Eliot - hascome to Venice on her honeymoon It is 1880 and she is newlymarried to John Cross. twenty years her junior She has come tothis city of canals and bridges to start again. to forget the deathof her longtime partner. George Henry Lewes -.. with whom she sharedtwenty five years of happiness and art In this new marriage. inthis intensely romantic place . can she give herself the happyending that she provided for Middlemarchs Dorothea Brooke Acentury later. sculptor Caroline Spingold takes us to Venice again.Scarred by her fathers abandonment just after she and her parentsspent a summer in the city. Caroline vowed never to return. But nowher powerful. wealthy older husband has brought her back againsther will. to celebrate their tenth anniversary. To...