Middlemarch, novel by George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans), published in eight parts in 1871–72 and also published in four volumes in 1872. It is considered to be Eliot’s masterpiece.
"Middlemarch" by George Eliot is a novel published in 1871-1872. Set in a fictional English Midlands town from 1829 to 1832, it weaves together multiple intersecting stories exploring the status of women, marriage, idealism, and political reform.
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Often identified as the greatest English novel ever written, Middlemarch by George Eliot examines the lives of several members of the rising middle class in the early to middle 19th century in a midsized town in the Midlands of England.
The main one is Dr. Tertius Lydgate who moves to Middlemarch in hopes of opening a medical practice. He does, though it proves difficult because he’s a young doctor with new ideas.
Set in the fictional English Midlands town of Middlemarch during the years 1829 to 1832, the novel weaves together several interconnected storylines against a backdrop of political and social upheaval, including the debates surrounding the Reform Act of 1832 and the coming of the railways.
Middlemarch or Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a Victorian realist novel by George Eliot (the penname of Mary Ann Evans). Published over the course of 1871-72, the novel depicts the trials and tribulations of life in the small English town of Middlemarch.
It is set in the 1830s in Middlemarch, a fictional provincial town in England, based on Coventry. Widely seen as Eliot's greatest work, it is considered by many scholars to be one of the most important novels of the Victorian era.