One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life.
Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces resistance from the society she inhabits.
In this epic in a small landscape, Eliot's large cast of precisely delineated characters and the rich tapestry of their stories result in a wise, compassionate, and astute vision of human nature.
As Virginia Woolf declared, George Eliot was one of the first English novelists to discover that men and women think as well as feel, and the discovery was of great artistic moment.
Introduction by E.
Shaffer (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) About the Author: Mary Ann Evans was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England, the last child of an estate agent.
During her girlhood, she went through a phase of evangelical piety, but her strong interest in philosophy and her friendship with religious freethinkers led to a break with orthodox religion.
When one of these friends married in 1843, Mary Ann took over from his wife the task of translating D.
Strauss's The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (1846), a work that had deep effect on English rationalism.
After her father's death she settled in London and from 1851 to 1854 she served as a writer and editor of the Westminster Review, the organ of the Radical party.
In London she met she met George Henry Lewes, a journalist and advanced thinker.
Lewes was separated from his wife, who had had two sons by another man, but had been unable to obtain a divorce.
In a step daring for Victorian times, Mary Ann Evans began living openly with Lewes in 1854, in a union they both considered as sacred as a legal marriage and one that lasted until his death in 1878.
With Lewes's encouragement, Mary Ann Evans wrote her first fictional work, The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton, for Blackwood's Magazine in 1857; it.
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