My junior year at Brown, I was so unhappy that I dropped out. In Arizona, I met a man; and I read Middlemarch. My junior year at Brown, I was so unhappy that I dropped out. The place had begun to ...

“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 ...

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This week in the magazine, Rebecca Mead writes about George Eliot’s “Middlemarch.” (Subscribers can read the full text; others can buy access to the issue via the digital edition.) On the Book Bench, ...

In the English village of Middlemarch in the early 1830s, Dorothea Brooke is a young idealist, busying herself with schemes to help the local poor. She shocks her family by marrying the middle-aged ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. George Eliot is the literary equivalent to the Masonic handshake. ''You like George Eliot?" someone will say. ''Then I know who you are, ...