The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot \'s incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction.
She was appointed DBE in 1999..
Passions of the Mind, a collection of critical essays, appeared in 1991; a new collection, On Histories and Stories, appeared in 2000
Portraits in Fiction, a study of the relationship between painting and the novel, and (ed.) Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings, by George Eliot , in 2001.
Her critical work includes Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch, Unruly Times (on Wordsworth and Coleridge) and, with the psychoanalyst Ignês Sodré, Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers.
Her work has been translated into 28 languages.
Her fiction includes The Shadow of the Sun
The Game
The Virgin in the Garden
Still Life
Sugar and Other Stories
Possession, winner of the 1990 Booker Prize and the 1990 Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction prize; the novella Angels and Insects
The Matisse Stories
The Djinn in the Nightingale\'s Eye, a collection of fairy stories
Babel Tower
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
The Biographers Tale
A Whistling Woman and The Little Black Book of Stories.
She appears regularly on radio and television, and writes academic articles and literary journalism both in England and abroad.
She taught English at University College, London, from 1972 to 183.
Byatt was born in 1936 and educated in York and at Newnham College, Cambridge, of which she is now an Honorary Fellow.
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Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most challenging and rewarding of writers.
It also includes selections from Eliot\'s translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach that challenged many ideas about Christianity; excerpts from her poems; and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe and Browning.
Essays such as \'Evangelical Teaching\' show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, while \'Woman in France\' questions conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and \'Notes on Form in Art\' sets out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.
The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot \'s incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction
