Winner of the Portico Prize Shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the Year High-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton, North and South and Wives and D...
Best known for her masterpieces Middlemarch and Silas Marner, George Eliot (1819Â -- 1880) was both one of th...