George Eliot: Middlemarch

Middlemarch is a novel that is set in a provincial town in England in the years leading up to the Reform Act of 1832, which broadly increased voting rights in Britain (but women still could not vote). Middlemarch deals with many themes, including “the woman question” and the nature of marriage, as well as religion and idealism. Note that “George Eliot” is the pen name of a woman named Mary Ann Evans. A novelist, poet, and journalist, she was one of the leading writers of Victorian England. Virginia Woolf described Middlemarch as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.” Some have hailed it as the greatest novel in the English language.

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