George Eliot’s novel *Middlemarch*. This work, spanning two volumes and 1,416 pages in its paperback translation, is a true ...

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 ...

Period drama lovers, look no further, the BBC has another hidden gem among its iPlayer catalogue, ready for your viewing. The series is based on George Eliot's 1871 novel Middlemarch, which itself has ...

When George Eliot agreed (reluctantly, by all accounts) to have her portrait made in 1865, she surely never imagined that her face would be forever linked with her published works. Yet today when we ...

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Ablow, Rachel. The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007. Anderson, Amanda, and Harry E. Shaw, eds. A Companion to George Eliot. Blackwell ...

“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 ...

It is not healthy for one man – a wannabe king – to dominate the whole of government and subvert justice to exact personal revenge.