*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 ...

“Middlemarch,” by George Eliot, has largely been immune to the kind of contemporary adaptation visited upon the works of other nineteenth-century writers. The novelist Kay Woodward has turned ...

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature. Middlemarch (1872) is a slow read and a deeply immersive one. George Eliot – the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880) – ...

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, ...

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 ...

It would be very silly indeed to argue that nonfiction writers are running out of ideas; the Samuel Johnson prize shortlist, to take just one guide, grows stronger with every year that passes.