George Eliot: A scandalous life 1/6

[@sarahloffler]

Thank you for posting this on KZbin.

[@kofazavodu]

What a wonderful woman she was. I love her books. Thanks for sharing

[@ElenDubhglas]

Thank you for posting! Fascinating documentary, and I plan to trot off to my local library to check out her works.

[@rosamariamendoza1466]

Heyyyyyy!, I'll be trotting along too!!!!

[@HeatherKnechtel]

While Jane Austen has my heart, George Eliot has my mind and my spirit. A brilliant writer, in style, content and character development, few novelists can also boast the philosophical prowess that is demonstrated in her works; Daniel Deronda and Middlemarch in particular.

[@ksotikoula]

I am more impressed about the similarities between her & Charlotte Bronte. They were both very passionate women, with spiritual questionings, attached to their fathers, who longed for love & suffered for it & were troubled by their "plainness" & had to fight their way in the literature business adopting pseudonyms. The difference was that GE found her man, decided to defy society & yet wrote more "decorous" books, while CB lived an irreproachable & lonely life but wrote "scandalizing" books.

[@JuriAmari]

Charlotte Brontë did eventually marry as well. But she wasn’t able to enjoy it as long as George Eliot and her partnership with George Lewis. Both are fearless in their different ways and I respect them for defying norms in their lives and literature that would be considered repressive today. They show the power of the soul over strict and inhumane rules.

[@talitakoomi]

Like Mary Ann, I was brought up in the Anglican/Episcopalian church, and like Mary Ann, I, too, reached a point where I simply could not STAND to attend 1 More Service! Hypocritical pomp & circumstance, tradition & ceremony- and as a child who loved God and sought Him, I knew even then that He was NOT THERE!! Not amongst "the frozen chosen" anyhow. Miss George and I would have gotten along quite well.

[@rachel183321]

I know exactly how she felt being unattractive but I wish I knew what it was like to be a genius

[@kentcyclist]

Well you certainly aren’t unattractive 🙂

[@graveyardghost2603]

You can always be an armchair intellectual. Nobody can stop you from educating yourself. I think it was Einstein who said "genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."

[@akschmidt2085]

@@graveyardghost2603 Even if Einstein HAD said that, he would have been wrong, intelligence is hereditary to an unpardonably large degree and you cannot become anything you want just by working hard, you need at least some degree of natural talent/aptitude/suitability. Unfair, I know... Having said that it doesn't take genius level intelligence to learn interesting stuff and our current concept of genius is wrong also. They call Elon Musk a genius, which is clearly wrong, in many respects the man is a blithering imbecile... so what IS a genius anyway. Find sth you like and become good at it, see where it takes ya...

[@LynnNeumann]

A very good presentation with admirable acting and a quality score.

[@TheMinoom]

Harriet Walter is a such a brilliant actress who has played in many different roles.

[@carolinebarnes6832]

Who played harriet Vane to Edward Petherbridge's Lord Peter Whimsey.

[@ksotikoula]

If you ask about the documentary, it is about the life of a famous English writer who defied the social mores and restrictions that existed for the women of her time.

[@brendanjones9673]

Great banter

[@ksotikoula]

I agree. I meant that in a way it was a deus machina for Eliot more than Maggie. It really saved her from the dilemma of writing anything "inappropriate"! Do you know her comment about Jane Eyre's dilemma?

[@ksotikoula]

She said "all self-sacrifice is good, but one would like it to be in a somewhat nobler cause than a diabolical law which chains a man body and soul to a putrefying carcase". She thought that C. Bronte wanted to promote the victorian ideal of self-sacrificing while Charlotte was against any such harmful and hypocritical notions and wrote the part in accordance with the heroine's character and psychology at that time. But for GE who had acted differently in life it sounded as a criticism.

[@clownworld2244]

1:02 ...Ah, so that is what became of Lady Catherine de Bough and Mr Collins!

[@olive3700]

George Elliot was one of the greatest writers of all time. Tolstoy said she was the only writer of her time who wrote novels for adults. So why is this biography written as a comedy? Her life was not a farce.

[@InCog2020]

I bought it yesterday. It was recommended by Christopher Hitchens.

[@ksotikoula]

What are you referring to? A book of hers that you don't want to have comment-spoilers about?

[@ksotikoula]

I agree. I like especially her presentation of Maggie's early life and her parents attitude towards her, but I would like Eliot to have given a more definite answer to Maggie's dilemma than that. It was a bit frustrating this "deus machina" intervention that leaves the question unsolved. I believe she would have gone back to him, since the damage to her reputation was already done. Why deny love as well? But Victorians wouldn't like this ending so...

[@---wu3qj]

What difference does it make if one writes brilliant novels , and lives a godless, unholy life? I would rather be a simpleton, and as dumb as a stump than not know and love God . She did not know what love is, if she could call an adulterous relationship a worthy love! One can be academically smart, but morally bankrupt. SAD.

[@margret587]

Who is that great actress who plays the part of George Eliot here ? Does anybody know ?

[@sjnepomuk]

Harriet Walter.

[@aparnarajesh]

Should Romona should become mini series

[@noexit4458]

Oh hey Mr. Lush!

[@stevemcgill7551]

Example, in Adam Bede, she go's into large passage's of 19th century cogency, piety, different faith's the rigour's, wrestling in love and heartache of everyday life, and that i understand, appreciate, digest and love in a writer, but then she go's into one of the heroines inspecting a gift from a male friend, and she's sitting there with a pair of earrings, and it ends up a six page oratory on the agony's and sufferings of been a woman...It takes away something for me. Fine author though...

[@lipgloss675411]

wat is it even about i dont want to watch it in case i might learn something

[@sassythesasquatch1794]

my towns only claim to fame if only her hospital could hire some competent workers

[@LaFemme434]

The actress playing George looks near enough like her photos!?!

[@mizofan]

currently in Belgravia

[@stevemcgill7551]

...i've read Middlemarch, which was very good, Daniel Deronda which was ok in comparison, and Adam Bede, which has the potential to be superb, but we'll see.

[@carolinacardenas2493]

por qué no tiene subtítulos en Español???????

[@stevemcgill7551]

She was a good and intelligent writer there's no doubt about that, but she's not the greatest in English literature, not while writers like Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson are in memory, i'm reading Adam Bede at present and am sticking to it like glue, but her regular references to the understanding's of the sex's is a little bit too indulgent for me, like she's writing to get something off her chest than furnish for her reader...perhaps, just thinking aloud.

[@anonymousforever]

steve mcgill they did not say she was the greatest, but among the greatest. Shakespeare, Hardy, Dickens and R.L. Stevenson are among the greatest too. None of them are THE greatest in English literature, not even Shakespeare. It is a ridiculous claim. English literature has many, many greats, all with something unique and different to contribute to our rich culture. To constantly compare and make that comparison a competition is foolish. As for your other rather negative comments regarding Eliot's work, well you seem to lack a certain understanding. Perhaps an improved knowledge of the history of that time as a sort of background would help. Then again, maybe not.

[@lipgloss675411]

just generally

[@astridbelge]

she is insanely clever

[@OpatraCleo]

The skull of a geniius loooove it

[@alexapenn6399]

steve mcgill - you cannot compare Shakespeare to any one - he's sui generis. Robert Louis Stevenson was okay, but Dickens and Hardy are masters. So, comparing Eliot to Hardy and Dickens as being great writers is fine with me. So, no she was not the greatest English writer, but a master writer. . .

[@judegrindvoll8467]

alexa penn in your opinion

[@leekee2578]

She looks like Oscar Wilde in a dress (shivers)

[@LynnNeumann]

A female emulator of Oscar Wilde, now there is an idea. :)

[@LadyOfBroadway333]

What has been seen cannot be unseen...

[@jacqo4426]

ZOMG uncanny! >_

[@anonymousforever]

LadyOfBroadway333 shallow idiot

[@anonymousforever]

Lee Kee another shallow idiot

[@alexapenn6399]

Now she is interesting!!! what a woman :} i'm smart, but not as intelligent as she was - wow!!!

[@mysaltnseagullfather]

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