This novel is one that has stood the test of time with readers left feeling all types of emotions after reading it.

There is something even awful in the nearness it brings.” George Eliot wrote those sentences in her 1872 masterpiece, Middlemarch, an examination of marriage unmatched by any other. She scrutini ...

Though it was published in the 1870s, George Eliot's classic novel Middlemarch has plenty to tell us about the world we live ...

Helen Groth receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature. Middlemarch (1872) is a slow read and a deeply ...

Interweaving in-depth readings of George Eliot's classic novel Middlemarch with an exploration into Eliot's life, as well as reflections on Mead's personal history, The Road to Middlemarch is no ...

George Eliot came to see her stories as having the same kind of ... and living well with others—as it certainly was for Spinoza—then the author of Middlemarch, who explored these same questions in ...

In a gathering at a Soho bookshop, Eliot met George Henry Lewes ... knowledge”—exemplified most powerfully in her 1871 novel Middlemarch. Questing for a capacious life of the mind, Dorothea ...

The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot details how Middlemarch reflected, sustained, extended and disciplined Rebecca Mead's life. British-born Mead is an author and New Yorker journalist.

THE MARRIAGE QUESTION: George Eliot’s Double Life ... Thereafter came “Felix Holt, the Radical,” “Middlemarch” — regarding whose analysis here, I can only say hold onto your Hegel ...

This George Eliot was not only the celebrated author of “Adam Bede” (1859), “The Mill on the Floss” (1860), and “Middlemarch” (1871) but the purveyor of “Wise, Witty and Tender ...