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.
Cast

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
Crew
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