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 ...

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 ...

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

I am finally drawing to a close with the largest novel I have read in decades. Nearly 700 pages. George Eliot’s Middlemarch is like a compendium of people who you see – before they do – what a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...