George Eliot: A Scandalous Life 2002

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

Harriet Walter

John Sessions

James Wilby

David Walliams

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

David Bamber

Janine Duvitski

Michael Culkin

Felicity Dean

Richard Dillane

Trevor Ray

Glynn Williams

Adrian Schiller