Kathryn Hughes

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Kathryn Hughes is the author of The Victorian Governess, The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton and the hugely acclaimed George Eliot: The Last Victorian. Educated at Oxford University, she holds a PhD in Victorian studies. She is a visiting lecturer at several British universities and reviews regularly for the Daily Telegraph and the Literary Review.

THE SHORT LIFE AND LONG TIMES OF MRS BEETON

We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the ultimate book on keeping house.

Publication date: UK 3rd Jul 2006

GEORGE ELIOT: The Last Victorian

This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England’s last great visionary and the first modern.

Publication date: UK 1st Jul 1999