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George Eliot’s masterpiece of provincial life still has much to teach us about sympathy and tolerance Virgina Woolf declared Middlemarch “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”.

When my very good friend of 30 years, Luke Coles, told me he was going to read George Eliot’s Middlemarch, I was immediately intrigued. I had, of course, long heard of the novel. It was a favourite of ...

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 ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced further productions for its 2026–27 season. The season also marks 20 years of the company’s Associate Schools Programme, which works with schools and ...

George Eliot’s Middlemarch was, and is, radical for its acknowledgement of how society places limits on even the most ambitious and idealistic of its inhabitants. In his new play, Alexi Kaye Campbell ...

12:47, Sat, Oct 18, 2025 Updated: 12:47, Sat, Oct 18, 2025 A 1994 BBC adaptation of George Eliot's classic 1971 novel Middlemarch has been branded "perfection". Consisting of six lengthy episodes on ...