“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.

*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 ...

Editorial: George Eliot’s masterpiece of provincial life still has much to teach us about sympathy and tolerance ...

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 ...

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, ...

Middlemarch (1872) is a slow read and a deeply immersive one. George Eliot – the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880) – built rich and complex fictional worlds that she hoped would allow readers to ...

George Eliot’s wise, empathetic book speaks to us eloquently of our own times Middlemarch, George Eliot’s capacious imagining of the life of a Midlands town, is one of the masterpieces of 19th-century ...

George Eliot – the pen name of Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans – is celebrated today as a writer of realist novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Middlemarch (1871) and Daniel ...

Middlemarch is the defining English novel of the 1800s, hands down. None of the stock characters of Dickens, the Coronation Street-style plot twists and big reveals. There’s no single message, ...

New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead was a teenager living in a small English town when she first read George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch. The Victorian novel had a profound effect on her thinking, she says, ...