Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Middlemarch (1872) is a slow read and a deeply immersive one. George Eliot – the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880) – built ...

When American poet Emily Dickinson was asked what she thought of George Eliot's novel Middlemarch, she responded: "What do I think of glory?" Virginia Woolf described it as "one of the few English ...

Rebecca Mead read Middlemarch for the first time when she was 17 while she was studying for her Oxford entrance exams. From the first sentence—”Miss Brooke had the kind of beauty which seems to be ...

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Middlemarch is the defining English novel of the 1800s, hands down. None of the stock characters of Dickens, the Coronation Street-style plot twists and big reveals. There’s no single message, ...

When Rebecca Mead read Middlemarch at 17 it spoke to her yearning for escape; in her 20s it was a warning against a bad marriage; and in middle age Eliot's experience as a stepmother echoed her own ...

“We must lay upon her grave whatever we have it in our power to bestow of laurel and rose,” Virginia Woolf wrote of George Eliot, in 1919, appraising the author’s work on the centenary of her birth.

"Middlemarch" is one of those books whose fans reread it once every few years, and no wonder. It's not only an absorbing story, or rather a big set of interconnected stories (all set in the same ...