New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead first read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” at age 17, when she was an ambitious schoolgirl studying for entrance exams to Oxford. She recalls identifying “completely” with ...

George Eliot may have been born in the last year of George III’s reign, but her life story reads like a 1970s feminist coming-of-age tale. Raised in a devoutly Christian household, Eliot (born Mary ...

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, ...

The most scathing piece of literary criticism I’ve ever read is an essay, published in 1856, called “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists.” It begins like this: The author then describes the many literary ...

George Eliot – the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880) – built rich and complex fictional worlds that she hoped would allow readers to be “better able to imagine and to feel the pains and joys of ...

To many critics Middlemarch is the greatest novel George Eliot ever wrote. Its scope, its variety, its maturity and insight, are indubitable. Yet to others it lacks something of the charm and ...

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, ...

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Everyone has a list of unread books that weighs on her conscience each passing year that it remains unchanged. At the top of mine was “Middlemarch,” by George Eliot, a classic that I managed to put ...