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Eliot, George. Middlemarch Penguin Classics Edition. 1972.
Eliot, George. Middlemarch Penguin Classics Edition. 1972.
The Question and Answer section for Middlemarch is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Prejudice is a theme that Lydgate and Will Ladislaw cannot seem to beat. People in Middlemarch dislike anyone who is not from Middlemarch, or anyone whose reputation seems questionable. Will and Lydgate are both good people, but it is initial...
Victorian society is rigid and strict. Money, wealth, and class structure are written in stone. Social position means a great deal in Middlemarch; it means how much respect a person gets, how people treat them, how they are regarded, etc. People...
Dorothea Brooke is the oldest of two daughters, and raised by her bachelor uncle, Mr. Brooke. Dorothea is an excessively religious, pious girlto the extent that she withdraws from the activities she likes most, and convinces herself to marry a...