This book is character-driven in AF
's accustomed manner, featuring Whig reformers, Tory reactionaries, and those dubbed revolutionaries like Daniel O'Connell
and William Cobbett
. Its story opens in November 1831 with a famous pronouncement...
politics
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (later GE
) attended a demonstration in Coventry which was part of Daniel O'Connell
's campaign in support of Irish Home Rule.
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton.
