Middlemarch (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: George Eliot
- First Published: 1871
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Dorothea Brooke, Edward Casaubon, Will Ladislaw, Tertius Lydgate, Rosamond Vincy, Celia, Sir James Chettam
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Tradition, Power, personal or social, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Prejudices or antipathies, Villages, Doctors, Manners or customs, Social life, England or English people, Small-town life, Ambition, Idealism, Money, Orphans or orphanages, Gossip, Naivete, Debtors or creditors
- Locales: England
The Story:
Dorothea Brooke and her younger sister, Celia, were young women of good birth who lived with their bachelor uncle at Tipton Grange near the town of Middlemarch. So serious was Dorothea’s cast of mind that she was reluctant to keep jewelry she had inherited from her dead mother, and she gave all of it to her sister except a ring and a bracelet.
At a dinner party where the middle-aged scholar Edward Casaubon and Sir James Chettam both vied for her attention, she was much more attracted to the serious-minded Casaubon. Casaubon must have had an inkling that his...
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