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, which a Guardian poll of ‘experts’ has named as the best novel ever, is overrated. I enjoyed reading it when ...

Editorial: George Eliot’s masterpiece of provincial life still has much to teach us about sympathy and tolerance ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

I first walked down the streets of Middlemarch and met its vivid inhabitants when I was an earnest 20-year-old English major. For me, George Eliot’s classic novel was not an assigned reading in a ...

It is a hefty tome of more than 800 pages, set in a fictitious town in the Midlands and written as a penetrating study of provincial life, religion and political reform. However unlikely its ...

“We must lay upon her grave whatever we have it in our power to bestow of laurel and rose,” Virginia Woolf wrote of George Eliot, in 1919, appraising the author’s work on the centenary of her birth.