![]() During negotiations, the Sybil accidentally seduces Max through her relentless pedantry about the Roman writer Lucian. Simultaneously, the elder Duncker is arranging a marriage between rakish Max and the young countess Sophie von Hahn, who is rich, spirited, and a die-hard Eliot fangirl. ![]() Lewes” or “the Sybil”) to sign their contract. Scandalous novelist George Eliot throws 1870s Berlin society into a tizzy in Duncker’s ( The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge, 2010, etc.) Victorian roman à clef.įeckless Max Duncker (not a coincidental surname) is assigned by his older brother and publishing partner to get the pseudonymous Middlemarch author (referred to by the authorial Duncker only as “Mrs. ![]()
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