![]() ![]() Middlemarch – George Eliot ‘…Middlemarch looms above the mid-Victorian literary landscape like a cathedral of words in whose shadowy vastness its readers can find every kind of addictive discomfort, a sequence of raw truths: the loneliness of the disappointed failure, Dr Lydgate the frustrations of his discontented wife the humiliation of a good woman, Dorothea the corrosive bitterness of Casaubon, and so on.’ Robert McCrum, Guardian extract, 100 Best Novels. Published over the course of 1871-72, the novel depicts the trials and tribulations of life in the small English town of Middlemarch. She struggles between realism and idealism she desired to compete with the male’s writers. ![]() ![]() Eliot’s life was full of rebellions and insatiable zeal. Europe/Paris Middlemarch – George Eliot ‘…Middlemarch looms above the mid-Victorian literary landscape like a cathedral of words in whose shadowy vastness its readers can find every kind of addictive discomfort, a sequence of raw truths: the loneliness of the disappointed failure, Dr Lydgate the frustrations of his discontented wife the humiliation of a good woman, Dorothea the corrosive bitterness of Casaubon, and so on.’ Robert McCrum, Guardian extract, 100 Best Novels Middlemarch or Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a Victorian realist novel by George Eliot (the penname of Mary Ann Evans). Middlemarch The Masterpiece of Eliot George Eliot occupies a distinguished position among the feminist literary critics. ![]()
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