It is a hefty tome of more than 800 pages, set in a fictitious town in the Midlands and written as a penetrating study of provincial life, religion and political reform. However unlikely its ...

“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 ...

Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes has announced he plans to make the first big-screen version of the George Eliot novel Middlemarch. The director, who is married to Kate Winslet, is best known for ...

To a provincial town in England. Not in the south, not in the north. But “somewhere around the middle”, where the “economic outlook is gloomy” and “parliament is in crisis, but the effects of the ...

Middlemarch is an extraordinary 19th century novel about provincial lives during significant social change, such as the building of new railways. It creates an engrossing web of individual experiences ...

*Originally published on April 6, 2022. Virginia Woolf called it "one of the few English novels written for grownup people." George Eliot's Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life was published ...

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 – the ...