Books by Nancy (State University of New York Henry

This innovative introduction provides students with the religious, political, scientific and cultural contexts they need to understand the author of The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch. Each novel is discussed in a separate section, making this the most comprehensive short introduction available to this important author.

In this study Nancy Henry introduces a set of facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. Henry examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons and a reader of colonial literature.