Vicarious Sages
Michael Mason, 3 November 1983
John Forster: A Literary Life
by James Davies.
Leicester University Press, 318 pp., £25, June 1983,0 7185 1164 6 Show More
by James Davies.
Leicester University Press, 318 pp., £25, June 1983,
Mr George Eliot: A Biography of George Henry Lewes
by David Williams.
Hodder, 288 pp., £12.95, June 1983,0 340 25717 2 Show More
by David Williams.
Hodder, 288 pp., £12.95, June 1983,
Johnnie Cross
by Terence deVere White.
Gollancz, 153 pp., £7.95, September 1983,0 575 03333 9 Show More
by Terence deVere White.
Gollancz, 153 pp., £7.95, September 1983,
“... was sexually demanding’. Claims of this sort may have a place in fiction, however: Mr de VereWhite’s entertaining new novel, Johnnie Cross, is about George Eliot’s ‘strong passions’, and the correspondingly weak ones of the man she married at the end of her life. Mr Williams finds it ... ”