Religious Studies in the News

Nancy Henry’s book, The Life of George Eliot: A Critical Biography, was published by Wiley- Blackwell in 2012

Nancy Henry’s book, The Life of George Eliot: A Critical Biography, was published by Wiley- Blackwell in 2012. It was reviewed in the Jewish Chronicle by British novelist Clive Sinclair, who called attention to Eliot’s “sympathy with the Jews, a sympathy given concrete expression by her decision to take Hebrew lessons with the scholar Emanuel Deutsch.” The book also received a positive mention in Rebecca Mead’s blog on the New Yorker website. In August 2012, Nancy attended the annual Dickens Universe at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she co-taught a faculty seminar on “Life Writing” with Rosemarie Bodenheimer (Boston College) and Helena Michie (Rice University). She is starting work on her next book project, “Women and the Nineteenth-Century Cultures of Investment.”