The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life review – one from the heart | Biography books
“There is something dazzling about marriage,” writes Clare Carlisle at the start of this wonderful book. “That leap into the open-endedness of another human being.” Prof Carlisle knows about such leaps: she is the biographer of madcap Danish sage Søren Kierkegaard, for whom Abraham’s leap of faith in God is the ultimate act of trust, beyond reason or calculation. Marriage could be like that.George Eliot imagined so. “The very possibility of a constantly growing blessedness in marriage is to me the very basis of good in…