Middlemarch

George Eliot · 1872 CE · Novel · English · Victorian

In a provincial town on the eve of the Reform Bill, an idealistic young woman marries a dry scholar she takes for a great mind, while a reforming doctor arrives with plans for a new hospital. Their ambitions meet money, gossip, marriage and the slow pressure of neighbors. A whole provincial town seen at once; thwarted ideals and ordinary lives woven into one web.

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• influenced by ↑ Emma
  Jane Austen · 1815 CE · Novel
• alludes to ↑ Don Quixote
  Cervantes · 1605 CE · Novel
• ↓ The Portrait of a Lady
  Henry James · 1881 CE · Novel — influenced by this

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