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Middlemarch

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[mid-l-mahrch] / ˈmɪd lˌmɑrtʃ /

noun

  1. a novel (1871–72) by George Eliot.


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Pennington also had roles in several BBC productions, including The Witches of Pendle, Oedipus The King and an adaptation of Middlemarch.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

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

In the early days of the coronavirus lockdown my Twitter feed was full of conversations about whether it was time to read Middlemarch or The Brothers Karamazov, Bleak House or The Anatomy of Melancholy.

From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2020

The 17-year-old’s close reading of Middlemarch got her a scholarship to Oxford to read English, from where she went to New York and, in time, a job on the New Yorker.

From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2019

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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