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George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

3.0 60 mins TV Movie   Documentary   2002
BBC  
Director(s): Mary Downes

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.

Casts of George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

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

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

as Gossip

David Bamber

as Gossip

Janine Duvitski

as Gossip

Michael Culkin

as Liggins Conspirator

Felicity Dean

as Edith Simcox

Richard Dillane

as John Cross

Trevor Ray

as D'Albert Durade

Glynn Williams

as Thornie

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