The BBC have showed a documentary abut the 19C woman novelist, George Eliot, by the artist Gillian Wearing.

The programme website is here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b8nj

George Eliot was a remarkable woman in a number of different ways; as a writer, and as someone who was able to live independently, as a writer, and outside the usual confines of the matrimonial and female spheres of Victorian life. The film showed each strand of Eliot’s life fed into her life and work as a woman, and as a creative artist.

The film is typical Wearing. It uses contemporary interviews and dramatic re-enactments to tell the story.

Terrific.