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Wise words, as true now as they were in 1881, when they first appeared in literary news,

a monthly journal of current literature.

We'll be discussing how literary magazines themselves

have stood the test of time with three editors from three very different publications later on.

But first, George Elliott, who might even have coined that modern truism back in the day. It's

200 years since Elliot's birth and a perfect point to celebrate who she was, not just the mythologised author of Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, but also the very real and complex person behind the pen name.

Happily, that's the scope of Cathy Ashornesey's revealing debut novel in love with George Elliott,

which delves into the unorthodox life,

work and relationships

of the author-born Marianne Evans,

from her scandalous cohabitation with George Lewis,

which continued domestically harmoniously,

until his death,

to her even more disparaged marriage,

...