*Originally published on April 6, 2022. Virginia Woolf called it "one of the few English novels written for grownup people." George Eliot's Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life was published ...

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At the beginning of “My Life in Middlemarch,’’ Rebecca Mead observes that there “are books that grow with the reader as the reader grows, like a graft to a tree.” In this blend of biography, memoir, ...