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Tag Archives: Middlemarch
The Influenza Book
Alongside of Middlemarch, I am also reading The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (the story of the 1918 epidemic). It’s strange, how the two books are … dovetailing, quite by accident. I didn’t design it … Continue reading
Middlemarch: “Advancing womanhood had tempered her plainness”
From Middlemarch: An amazing description of “plain” Mary Garth: Mary Garth, on the contrary, had the aspect of an ordinary sinner: she was brown; her curly dark hair was rough and stubborn; her stature was low; and it would not … Continue reading
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Middlemarch: Prigs
From Middlemarch: “A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.”
Middlemarch: “plain women”
From Middlemarch: Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
Middlemarch: “between breakfast and dinner-time”
From Middlemarch: We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, “Oh, nothing!” Pride helps; and pride is … Continue reading
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Middlemarch: “From such contentment poor Dorothea was shut out.”
From Middlemarch: Dorothea Brooke, in Middlemarch, is a well-bred young woman, with a nice inheritance … and yet she chooses to live plainly, and involve herself in community projects, and renounce the things which give her pleasure. Her dream of … Continue reading
Dorothea Brooke: “she was enamoured of intensity and greatness”
From Middlemarch: Dorothea Brooke. So far, she is the lead character in Middlemarch, although others are now being introduced (Lydgate, Fred Vincy, Mary Garth) who are coming to the foreground. But the first part of the book is entitled “Miss … Continue reading
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
After 20 years of saying, “I’ve got to read Middlemarch one day” – I finally am. As with most of the “classics” (at least this has been my experience) – I have found that once I just start the thing, … Continue reading
Miss Dorothea Brooke:
I started Middlemarch today. I’ve read 3 pages, and I feel such a mixture of exhilaration and despair that it’s nearly unbearable. The despair comes from the feeling: Jaysus, I will never ever be able to write like that. HOW … Continue reading