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Marriage Story … In The Marriage Question, Claire Carlisle explores how George Eliot’s unconventional union with George Lewes, a married philosopher, shaped the Middlemarch writer’s career. Jenny McPhee reviews.  In October of 1856, Mary Ann Evans, a successful English essayist and editor, wrote a scathing essay in The Westminster Review entitled “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists,” criticizing the majority of novels written by and for women for …