George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

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.

Maureen Lipman

Narrator

Harriet Walter

Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot

John Sessions

George Henry Lewes

James Wilby

Herbert Spencer

David Walliams

John Chapman

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Gossip

David Bamber

Gossip

Janine Duvitski

Gossip

Michael Culkin

Liggins Conspirator

Felicity Dean

Edith Simcox

Richard Dillane

John Cross

Trevor Ray

D'Albert Durade

Glynn Williams

Thornie

Adrian Schiller

Man

• Mary DownesProducer · Director
• George EliotNovel
• Kim ThomasExecutive Producer
• Michael DulyEditor
• Ginny SchillerCasting

Release date

November 1, 2002

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h

Genres

TV Movie, Documentary