Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “My Life in Middlemarch” (Crown), by Rebecca Mead New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead first read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” at age 17, when she was an ambitious ...

“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.

George Eliot may have been born in the last year of George III’s reign, but her life story reads like a 1970s feminist coming-of-age tale. Raised in a devoutly Christian household, Eliot (born Mary ...

George Eliot – the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880) – built rich and complex fictional worlds that she hoped would allow readers to be “better able to imagine and to feel the pains and joys of ...

*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 ...

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

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, ...

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, ...

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, ...

Coventry audiences will take their own journeys through the production as 150th anniversary celebrated In a bustling auction house in Coventry warring bidders are raising their hands. Suddenly a ...