My Life in Middlemarch

A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth-- Middlemarch --and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch , regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining admission to Oxford, and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several lo