Middlemarch
Americannoun
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Ross finds “traces” of Wagner in Middlemarch, Waldorf schools, Disney iconography, comic-book superheroes, and the fantasies that drove Viennese urban planners and architects of Chicago skyscrapers.
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2020
We’re all taking daily healthsome walks, or baking our own bread, or taking up knitting, or seriously thinking about finally reading Middlemarch.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2020
With six people in a small flat with one heated room, she later said, nobody was going to do Middlemarch.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2019
But fame had a softening effect then as now, and by the time Eliot published Middlemarch, her sixth novel, she had been a celebrity for years.
From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2018
Emma was thrilled by the presence of one of the guests—the novelist known as George Eliot, author of one of Emma’s favorite books, Middlemarch.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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