“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 ...

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, ...

Our health depends in part on health professionals, and there is mounting evidence that many young physicians are not thriving. A recent report in the journal Academic Medicine revealed that, compared ...

You couldn’t ask for a better guide through the intriguing life of novelist George Eliot than British-born Rebecca Mead, a staff writer at The New Yorker, who first read Eliot’s Middlemarch as an ...

Helen Groth receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature. Middlemarch (1872) is a slow read and a deeply ...

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 ...

Ask some readers their favorite book, and they’ll rattle off a list of five or 10 but cannot narrow their dedication to one book or author. Ask others, and they’ll respond without hesitation with ...

George Eliot’s sprawling tale of provincial life has triumphed in BBC Culture’s poll of the greatest British novels as voted by the rest of the world. Michael Gorra explains why. O, let me count the ...

I first walked down the streets of Middlemarch and met its vivid inhabitants when I was an earnest 20-year-old English major. For me, George Eliot’s classic novel was not an assigned reading in a ...

The rest of the world has spoken. And they’ve decided, in their wisdom, that Middlemarch is the greatest British novel of all time. BBC Culture contributor Jane Ciabattari asked 82 international ...