1 Growing Up at Griff 12 -- 2 From Conventry to Geneva 28 -- 3 The Westminster Review 44 -- 4 'George Eliot' and the Woman Question in the 1850s 65 -- 5 Scenes of Clerical Life: Fruitful Sacrifice 82 -- 6 Adam Bede: The Mystery Beneath the Real 96 -- 7 The Lifted Veil: The Limits of Vision 114 -- 8 The Mill on the Floss: The Search for a Key 123 -- 9 Silas Marner: Springs of Renewal 145 -- 10 Romola: Daughter to Mother 159 -- 11 Felix Holt, the Radical: Personal and Political 175 -- 12 Middlemarch: Against Simplicity 193 -- 13 Daniel Deronda: The Frontiers of Self 217 -- 14 Winter and Spring 239.