We are looking at how being smart and unattractive influenced George Eliot's life and what it can teach us now.
George Eliot is one the most important English writers of the 19th century. Her novels are classics of Victorian literature. She is considered to be a genius and her primary masterpiece "Middlemarch" is often called the greatest English novel. Virginia Woolf famously called it "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people".
This time we will look at the story of George Eliot's personal life.
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00:00 Introduction: what is appearance?
01:01 George Eliot: being smart
05:10 Being unattractive and subverting expectations
07:57 Substance over appearances in relationships
14:37 Overestimation of physical appearance in romantic relationships
18:51 George Eliot and Charlotte Brontë
20:39 George Eliot's legacy
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