In Love with George Eliot: A Novel

Reading Level
Grade 8
Time to Read
7 hrs 4 mins

Reading Level

What is the reading level of In Love with George Eliot: A Novel?

Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of In Love with George Eliot: A Novel is 7th and 8th grade.

Expert Readability Tests for
In Love with George Eliot: A Novel

Readability Test Reading Level
Flesch Kincaid Scale Grade 6
SMOG Index Grade 9
Coleman Liau Index Grade 7
Dale Chall Readability Score Grade 7

Reading Time

7 hrs 4 mins

How long to read In Love with George Eliot: A Novel?

The estimated word count of In Love with George Eliot: A Novel is 105,865 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 7 hrs 4 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 11 hrs 46 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 56 mins.

In Love with George Eliot: A Novel - 105,865 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 11 hrs 46 mins
Average 250 words/min 7 hrs 4 mins
Fast 450 words/min 3 hrs 56 mins
In Love with George Eliot: A Novel by Kathy O’Shaughnessy
Authors
Kathy O’Shaughnessy

More about In Love with George Eliot: A Novel

105,865 words

Word Count

for In Love with George Eliot: A Novel

320 pages

Pages
Hardcover: 320 pages
Paperback: 400 pages

11 hours and 23 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England’s greatest woman novelist as you’ve never read it before. Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society, and women rarely deign to visit her. In secret, though, she has begun writing fiction under the pseudonym George Eliot. As Adam Bede’s fame grows, curiosity rises as to the identity of its mysterious writer. Gradually it becomes apparent that the moral genius Eliot is none other than the disgraced woman living with Lewes. Now Evans’ tremendous celebrity begins. The world falls in love with her. She is the wise and great writer, sent to guide people through the increasingly secular, rudderless century, and an icon to her progressive feminist peers ― with whom she is often in disagreement. Public opinion shifts. Her scandalous cohabitation is forgiven. But this idyll is not secure and cannot last. When Lewes dies, Evans finds herself in danger of shocking the world all over again. Meanwhile, in another rudderless century, two women compete to arrive at an interpretation of Eliot as writer and as woman … Everyone who has thrilled at being shown the world anew by George Eliot will thrill again at her presence, complex and compelling, here.