In her novel "Middlemarch," George Eliot tells the story of life in a small country area of England in the early to mid nineteenth century. Through her work, Eliot comments on themes of marriage, the role of women, religious hypocrisy, and the response to change. The story is complex with multiple plots and characters who make up the population of Middlemarch.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
by George Eliot
George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Anne Evans) was born November 22, 1819, at South Farm, Arbury, Warwickshire, as the third child of land ag...
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Title: Middlemarch
Author: George Eliot
Release Date: July, 1994 [EBook #145]
[This file was last updated on June 29, 2003]
Edition: 11
Language: English
Character set en...
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George Eliot was the pen name used by the English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), one of the most important writers of European fiction. Her masterpiece, Middlemarch, is not only a major social d...
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The most learned and respected novelist of the later Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biography stitched...
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George Eliot is widely recognized as one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century; yet, more often than not, her two volumes of poetry are ignored in modern critical assessments. Like s...
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George Eliot wrote nearly all of her nonfiction prose during two widely separated periods in her life. As Marian Evans, in her mid thirties, she produced more than sixty critical essays that appeared ...
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Biography EssayThe most learned and respected novelist of the late Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biog...
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Most of us are taught not to care about the value of money, while others may think that money has a lot of power. We believe that money gives us ever-lasting happiness. That's why through out our li...
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."..beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress." Would a woman enjoy being told such words? In the passage from George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch, the narrator describes the simple, y...
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What makes Middlemarch such a realistic novel is the situations and the characters in the novel are applicable to everyday life. Although the novel is fictitious, many of the characters are not overly...
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