Though there are perhaps many St. Theresa metaphors actively working in Middlemarch, I feel Eliot’s prelude refers to any whose ambitions and lofty goals are dispersed by the mundane commonalities of life. There is perhaps no greater example of this…
Each epigraph illuminates the passage in a different way; sometimes these aphorisms are homemade, coming from George Eliot herself; however, often they are selected from the geniuses who peopled the years before Eliot became a writer.
From the author: Two of George Eliot’s original letters appear to differ considerably from Gordon S. Haight’s published versions of them. The latter are not the transcriptions one would expect. But a close inspection of one original letter with its…
The idea that eating fruit can somehow be connected to (im)proper notions of behaviour for women is neither new nor revolutionary; we need only look to the Bible to find this concept significantly influencing women’s lives. But what happens when the…
Last week, the Women’s Prize for Fiction announced the launch of their ‘Reclaim Her Name’ campaign. The campaign has reprinted 25 novels using the ‘real’ names of 26 writers who used a male pseudonym under the bold tagline of ‘finally giving female…