*Originally published on April 6, 2022. Virginia Woolf called it "one of the few English novels written for grownup people." George Eliot's Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life was published ...

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 ...

*This is the final episode of a two-part series. It originally aired on April 7, 2022. George Eliot's 1871-1872 novel Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life was a hit from the start. Queen Victoria ...

Helen Groth receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature. Middlemarch (1872) is a slow read and a deeply ...

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, ...