‘My Life in Middlemarch’ (Crown), by Rebecca Mead 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week in the magazine, Rebecca writes about George Eliot and "Middlemarch." Join her online today at 3 P.M. E.T. for a live chat. Click here to set an e-mail reminder and to join the chat. When I ...

Meg Wolitzer's latest novel is The Interestings. I have to admit that the first time I tried to read Middlemarch by George Eliot, I ended up putting it aside after only 20 pages. My teenage self, ...

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 ...

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 ...