Middle class veil
The Lifted veil of George Eliot, this is Mary Ann Evans(1819-1880)(Fig.1),
Britain woman writer, that used this pseudonym because then was almost
mandatory for success of a writer woman that they use a male name, also because
female literature was banished to second town; anyway she wrote at 1859 this tail,
a history very middleclass, usually marry for opportune and very much
indifference if isn’t hate; I think that Mary, I use this name because is her
name, told her life with George Henry Lewes(Fig.2), a philosopher that was married and
Mary lived with him for twenty years; this life, very aseptic, I think that was
tell of rapport between same Mary and her companion; during Victoria queen, in
Union Kingdom, moral life was more important than same life, therefore a
scandal for living together with a married man was very execrable; then human
rapports both in married life and in lovers rapports was very cold; Mary I
think that we can identify with Bertha, aseptic protagonist of this tail, she
tells with much attention and much particulars emotion and fell of this woman
and this is very suspect, and we can think that feel of Bertha is that of Mary,
and following this think we can imagine it because feel of Latimer, husband of
Bertha are intense; I think that unique horror that we can find during read of
this romance is rapport between husband and wife; but this is a painting of
Victoria life in Union Kingdom, that we can find everywhere, then as now, but
this rapport is very true, on contrary too true to be invented alone, we can
think that this tail is lived, therefore Mary tells her life with George.
Alessandro Lusana
Fig.1
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