The male villain as domestic tyrant in Daniel Deronda: Victorian masculinities and the cultural context of George Eliot's novel.(Critical Essay)

In her capacity as "Belles Lettres" reviewer for the "Contemporary Literature" section of the Westminster, Marianne Evans--who later adopted the pseudonym George Eliot and became single of the most popular and influential British novelists of the 19th century--passed above the poet's reputed "obscurity" and published a favorable review of Robert Browning's Men and Women in January 1856 Later, Browning became a friend of Eliot and her companion George Lewes, occasionally visiting their Priory abode after returning to England from Florence in 1862 when