A desire brought into sharper focus by the fact that her uncle is indifferent to the living conditions of his tenants. But Dorothea is a woman of strong moral principles guided by her religious conviction and she rejects the thought of marriage for mere social convention and is instead longing for the opportunity to participate in some greater cause for the benefit of the less fortunate. Especially since she has attracted the attention of the young and very wealthy Sir James Chettam. Though she herself feels no urgency to marry, she nevertheless feels the social pressure from her family. This ‘study of provincial life’ was famously called ‘one of the few English novels written for grown-up people’ by Virginia Woolf, while Salman Rushdie admits he was not able to finish it.ĭorothea Brooke, a young woman of independent income, lives with her uncle, Mr Brooke, and her sister Celia on their uncle’s estate near the town of Middlemarch their parents being deceased. It is considered one of the great English novels, an exemplar of Victorian Realism, while also being a novel of deeply-considered characters, confined in a plot of social tension in a setting that is a microcosm of a time of larger societal change. Middlemarch is a novel whose reputation precedes it.
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