Romola /
George Eliot ; edited with an introduction by Dorothea Barrett.
- London : Penguin, 1996.
- 688 p. ; 20 cm.
- Penguin classics .
This novel argues George Eliot's most profound and utopian vision of the position of women. Romola's patient subservience to her scholar-father, her unhappy marriage and her spiritual awakening take place in Renaissance Florence.