In George Eliot, Poetess, Wendy S. Williams explores Eliot's poetry in its relation to Victorian literature and analyses it from within the tradition of mid-Victorian women's poetry. George Eliot started her career as a poet in the 1860s, when she was already a well-known and successful novelist. Eliot's abundant poetic contribution has been neglected and often undervalued by critics. No in-depth and full-length study on Eliot's poems was undertaken before Williams's book. This contribution c...