Byatt's upbringing was fairly unhappy as she struggled against her domineering mother.

"She noted in an interview in 2009, "I am not a Quaker, of course, because I'm anti-Christian and the Quakers are a form of Christianity but their religion is wonderful – you simply sat in silence and listened to the nature of things."[3]

"She married Ian Charles Rayner Byatt in 1959 and had a daughter, as well as a son who was killed in a car accident at the age of 11. The marriage was dissolved in 1969. She has two daughters with her second husband Peter John Duffy.[3]

Byatt's relationship with her sister Margaret Drabble has sometimes been strained due to the presence of autobiographical elements in both their writing. While their relationship is no longer especially close and they do not read each other's books, Drabble describes the situation as "normal sibling rivalry"[7] and Byatt says it has been "terribly overstated by gossip columnists" and that the sisters "always have liked each other on the bottom line."[8]

Несомненно, из коллекции "Women secrets"

"Тогда же начался её гражданский брак с Дж. Г. Льюисом[6] , известным литературным критиком, писавшим также на научные и философские темы, с которым Мэри Энн познакомилась через философа Герберта Спенсера и издателя Чепмена. В первые месяцы их совместной жизни Мэри Энн закончила перевод «Этики» Спинозы и в сентябре 1856 обратилась к художественной прозе.
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"Через два года умер Льюис, и писательница посвятила себя подготовке его рукописей к публикации. В мае 1880 года она вышла замуж за старинного друга семьи Д. У. Кросса. Переехав вместе с новым супругом в новый дом в Челси, она слегла в постель, подхватив легочную инфекцию, осложненную прогрессирующей нефропатией, и 22 декабря 1880 года скончалась.

Я, наверное, не решусь, бо не осилю.

"Because Lewes allowed himself to be falsely named as the father on the birth certificates of Jervis's illegitimate children, he was considered to be complicit in adultery, and therefore he was not legally able to divorce her.

The trip to Germany also served as a honeymoon for Evans and Lewes, and they now considered themselves married, with Evans calling herself Mary Ann Evans Lewes, and referring to Lewes as her husband. It was not unusual for men and women in Victorian society to have affairs; Charles Bray, John Chapman, Friedrich Engels, and Wilkie Collins all had extra-marital relationships, though they were much more discreet than Lewes and Evans were. It was this lack of discretion and their public admission of the relationship which created accusations of polygamy and earned them the moral disapproval of English society.

On 16 May 1880 Eliot courted controversy once more by marrying John Cross, a man twenty years her junior, and again changing her name, this time to Mary Anne Cross

While the couple was honeymooning in Venice, Cross, in a fit of depression, jumped from the hotel balcony into the Grand Canal. He survived, and the newlyweds returned to England. They moved to a new house in Chelsea, but Eliot fell ill with a throat infection. This, coupled with the kidney disease with which she had been afflicted for several years, led to her death on 22 December 1880 at the age of 61.[20]