For better, for worse: George Eliot's double life
The author, born Mary Ann Evans, didn’t treat marriage lightly—but as a subject for rigorous philosophical and artistic inquiry
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The author, born Mary Ann Evans, didn’t treat marriage lightly—but as a subject for rigorous philosophical and artistic inquiry
Define diffident. diffident synonyms, diffident pronunciation, diffident translation, English dictionary definition of diffident. hesitant to assert oneself; timid Not to be confused with: different – dissimilar; unlike; separate and distinct Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary...
THE WORLD OF MIDDLEMARCH An examination of timelessness of George Eliot’s ‘Study of Provincial Life’, with particular reference to the ‘Three Lo...
In Defence of Edward Casaubon Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons It is now almost axiomatic, in some circles, to hold up Middlemarch as ‘the best British novel of all time’. George Eliot’s tome, adored by Virginia Woolf and Michael Gove alike, would have a sturdier claim to that accolade were it not for the fact that its most interesting and engaging character drops dead half-way through. Edward Casaubon is killed off at the end of the book that Eliot fittingly named ‘Waiting for Death’. After that point, for the remaining five books, Middlemarch meekly meanders like an epic without a...