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World Before Her

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ISBN-10: 0547237960

ISBN-13: 9780547237961

Edition: 2009

Authors: Deborah Weisgall

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Marian Evans-who writes under the pen name George Eliot-has come to Venice on her honeymoon. It is 1880 and she is newly married to John Cross, twenty years her junior. She has come to this city of canals and bridges to start again, to forget the death of her longtime partner, George Henry Lewes-with whom she shared twenty five years of happiness and art. In this new marriage, in this intensely romantic place, can she give herself the happy ending that she provided for Middlemarch's Dorothea Brooke? A century later, sculptor Caroline Spingold takes us to Venice again. Scarred by her father's abandonment just after she and her parents spent a summer in the city, Caroline vowed never to…    
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Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/13/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Deborah Weisgall has written extensively about the arts painting, music, performance for the New York Times, the Atlantic, Esquire, Connoisseur, and The New Yorker. She is the author of the novel, Still Point, and the family memoir, A Joyful Noise. Weisgall lives with her husband and daughter in Lincoln, Massachusetts.