*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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 Rise of a Populist Influencer in the Age of Print Media A Master Observer’s Timeless Ridicule of Radicalism What Thomas Sowell Sees — and Sees Through You know you’ve always meant to; now it’s put ...