George Eliot

The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is Reading Now and Next

Featuring George Eliot, Jeanette Winterson, Julie Otsuka, and More

 
By Diana Arterian  January 26, 2024
Trans History

How to Brainwash Yourself: Grace Lavery on the Devices of Trans Identity in Literature

By Grace Lavery  May 31, 2023
Language

Oh, the Ironies: How Irony Got Its (Second) Meaning

By Ben Yagoda  November 14, 2022
Political Science

Sidelined No More: A Reading List of Fiercely Political Women

By Eve Fairbanks  October 4, 2022
Morality

Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?

By Pamela Erens  April 26, 2022
The Hub

Why George Eliot disparaged “silly novels by lady novelists.”

By Vanessa Willoughby  November 22, 2021
Classic Novels

The Gulf Between Aspiration and Accomplishment: Rebecca Mead on Saint Theresa and Middlemarch

By Rebecca Mead  September 15, 2021
The History of Literature

How Middlemarch Helped Yang Huang Break Free from a History of Censorship

By History of Literature  June 14, 2021
Victorian Literature

How Do You Write a Biography Filled With Unreliable Witnesses?

By Emily Midorikawa  May 12, 2021
Narrative

Metaliterary Worlds: On Fictional Books Within Books

By Elizabeth Knox  March 11, 2021
Love

25 Actually Pretty Happy Couples in Literature

By Literary Hub  February 12, 2021
Lit Crit

The Hidden Narrative in Middlemarch That 2021 Readers Will Spot

By Diana Rose Newby  February 12, 2021
Feminism

On George Eliot’s Uncertain Relationship to Feminism

By Kathy O'Shaughnessy  November 12, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Want to Feel Better? Stop Reading New Books.

By Emily Temple  November 11, 2020
The Hub

The #ReclaimHerName initiative ignores the authorial choices of the writers it represents.

By Olivia Rutigliano  August 13, 2020
Reading Lists

Cree LeFavour on the Pleasures of the Limitless Reread

By Cree LeFavour  August 12, 2020
The Hub

For your consideration: New fetishes from classic literature.

By Jessie Gaynor  July 14, 2020
Literary Disco

How Is Middlemarch Halfway Through?

By Literary Disco  July 14, 2020
Humor

Defenders of a George Eliot statue had no idea what they were doing and I’m here for it.

By Aaron Robertson  June 16, 2020
The Hub

Victorians were obsessed with the rumor that George Eliot had two different-sized hands.

By Olivia Rutigliano  May 20, 2020
Literary Disco

Literary Disco Dives Into Middlemarch Book Two

By Literary Disco  April 28, 2020
Literary Disco

Literary Disco Meets Middlemarch

By Literary Disco  April 14, 2020
Reading Lists

Beyond Little Women: A Reading List for Bookish Girls

By Janice Hadlow  March 31, 2020
The Hub

Every book Maeve Wiley references in Sex Education.

By Katie Yee  February 28, 2020
Unexpected Outcomes

How George Eliot Became a Social Outcast at the Height of Her Fame

By Norman Lebrecht  November 22, 2019
Close Reading

Revisiting the Genius of Middlemarch

By John Mullan  November 21, 2018
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