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"It’s an incredible novel with what we would now call a feminist plot. It’s also set in an English village in the turn of the 19th century... So she devotes an entire chapter to describing a pre-industrial Sabbath in a small English village. And it’s just gorgeous."
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Tomorrow - Sat. 20 May. Next in our fabulous Victorian Season: Clare Walker Gore on George Eliot's first novel, Adam Bede (1859). Live online lecture and seminar. Brilliant. https://t.co/wq7HHQN0kb https://t.co/m9U6CaXDJI
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22 December 1880. Leading Victorian novelist George Eliot (real name Mary Ann Evans), died (aged 61). She wrote 7 novels: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, The Radical, Daniel Deronda and her masterpiece Middlemarch. https://t.co/3t5ZlTXGxI