“Middlemarch,” by George Eliot, has largely been immune to the kind of contemporary adaptation visited upon the works of other nineteenth-century writers. The novelist Kay Woodward has turned ...

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”.

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 ...