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 ...

“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 ...

Martin Amis, AS Byatt, Kathyrn Hughes and John Mullan reflect on how Middlemarch has changed for them as they have got older It is interesting that during her life Middlemarch wasn't George Eliot's ...

Reading Middlemarch can be dangerous in the age of social media. In the 150 years since George Eliot’s great humanist novel was published, readers have been professing that it has made them more ...

George Eliot’s sprawling tale of provincial life has triumphed in BBC Culture’s poll of the greatest British novels as voted by the rest of the world. Michael Gorra explains why. O, let me count the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook When asked to name 19th-century female writers, the one most likely to come to mind is Jane Austen ...

I don't know if women can have it all, a question that has spawned innumerable "think pieces," but they should surely have more than Dorothea Brooke, the heroine of George Eliot's 1874 novel, ...

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature. Middlemarch (1872) is a slow read and a deeply immersive one. George Eliot – the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880) – ...