“Middlemarch,” and Eliot’s work in general ... until recently felt as characteristically English as it did in George Eliot’s time. That the tills and ledgers of Britain will take a ...

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 ...

Meg Wolitzer's latest novel is The Interestings. I have to admit that the first time I tried to read Middlemarch by George Eliot, I ended up putting it aside after only 20 pages. My teenage self ...

True to its subtitle, Middlemarch is not a portrait of a lady but “a study of provincial life,” set in central England around 1830. And here is Eliot’s genius: I cannot tell you off the top ...

As a teenager Rebecca Mead first encountered George Eliot’s Middlemarch and has returned to it at important moments in her life. In her new meditation cum memoir about the novel, she reveals ...

George Eliot's 1871-1872 novel Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life was a hit from the start. Queen Victoria loved it. The parlour of her London home had to be enlarged to fit the crowds who ...

Like many other readers, I first picked George Eliot's Middlemarch because I had to, as part of an undergrad seminar on the Victorian novel. I was less daunted by its length than by its mass ...

“Middlemarch,” by George Eliot, has largely been immune to the kind of contemporary adaptation visited upon the works of other nineteenth-century writers. The novelist Kay Woodward has turned ...

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 ...

George Eliot was, of course, a woman, born Mary Anne Evans in 1819. That she wrote about women might lead the reductive mind to conclude that Middlemarch is "women's fiction" instead of the ...