Middlemarch

Full Middlemarch Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel written by Mary Ann Evans (pseudonym of George Eliot) and published in 1871 and 1872 in eight parts, and then in four volumes the following year. It s generally agreed that this is Eliot s finest work. The landed gentry, the clergy, the manufacturers, the professionals, the farmers, and the workers are all analysed in this realist masterpiece set in the town of Middlemarch. The story centres on Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate, two idealistic personalities whose marriages end in tragedy.