George Eliot’s Middlemarch advertises itself as “A Study of Provincial Life,” but it has a great deal in it that might be of interest to Americans who just right now have some extra time on their ...

I recently finished rereading George Eliot’s Middlemarch, which all students at our college read during their junior year, and it has reminded me of one reason such books are indispensable to liberal ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook When asked to name 19th-century female writers, the one most likely to come to mind is Jane Austen ...

The staff writer revisits an old favorite. I’ve been on a George Eliot kick: I’ve just finished re-re-reading “Middlemarch”; have been reading Eliot’s journals (filled with alarming accounts of ...

“Certain men are constitutionally incapable of reading one of the greatest novels ever written,” says the author, whose new novel is “Commitment.” Credit...Rebecca Clarke Supported by On my night ...

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Here is a variation on a phrase you will encounter often in the course of reading about Middlemarch: “When I was such-and-such years old, I read Middlemarch for the first time.” Everything else ...

Rebecca Mead was 17 the first time she read Eliot's Middlemarch, and the book has remained a favorite ever since. But critic Meg Wolitzer says you... A New Look At George Eliot That's Surprisingly ...

I first walked down the streets of Middlemarch and met its vivid inhabitants when I was an earnest 20-year-old English major. For me, George Eliot’s classic novel was not an assigned reading in a ...

Rebecca Mead’s literary memoir “My Life in Middlemarch,” examines the classic novel about a provincial English city in the early 1800s, as if gazing into a two-way mirror. The book contemplates the ...

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