1927. Haldane was a Scottish social-welfare worker and author who wrote several biographies and translated a number of philosophical works. In this volume she chronicles the life of George Eliot, pseudonym of novelist, translator, and religious writer Mary Ann Evans. Contents: George Eliot's Youth; Young Womanhood; Difficult Years; The New Life; George Eliot as a Novel Writer: Her First Novels; An Autobiographical Novel-The Mill on the Floss; An Idyll and a History; A Great Religious Novel: Romola; George Eliot as a Poet; George Eliot as a Political Novelist: Felix Holt; A Middle Class Novel: Middlemarch; The Last Novel: Daniel Deronda; The Last Years; and George Eliot and Her Time.