![]() ![]() Much as I love Middlemarch, it is not my favorite Eliot, though it is a very great book. (Do you ever hope a novel will have changed, too? But then what would the story be?) When I reread Middlemarch in 2010 and again in 2015 (I posted about it here), I channeled my inner good girl as I pored over the story of Dorothea with bated breath and the crazed hope that Dorothea would not marry Mr. Casaubon, because she mistakes him for an intellectual. I read Middlemarch in an independent reading class in high school, and, then as now, identified with Dorothea Brooke, the bright, fiery, naive young heroine who marries a homely middle-aged scholar, Mr. Over the years, Eliot’s books have delighted me, perhaps because I started with the best. ![]() Some of you may have been introduced to Eliot in high school by Silas Marner, her sentimental novel about a miser redeemed by a child. ![]() Many of you have doubtless read Middlemarch, her superb novel about provincial life. Is George Eliot the most elegant writer of the nineteenth century? ![]()
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