Becoming George” might have been the title of a new play about the young womanhood of another great female novelist; but ...

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, ...

When George Eliot agreed (reluctantly, by all accounts) to have her portrait made in 1865, she surely never imagined that her face would be forever linked with her published works. Yet today when we ...

Rebecca Mead, a New Yorker writer, 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 ...

Read our review of *Bird Grove*, now in performances at the Hampstead Theatre to 21 March. Read more theatre reviews on LondonTheatre.co.uk.

If you are like me, you have friends with whom you love to talk about books. Each gets excited about something he recently read and wants to share this experience with you. Often, you know how they ...

It finds Mary Ann Evans – the woman behind the famous pen name – on the cusp of discovering her calling, and Bird Grove has ...