Middlemarch

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Tonight, we’ll read the opening to “Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life” written by English author George Eliot, and originally published in 1871. George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. The novel is set in a fictional English Midlands town in the early 1800s, following many separate characters whose lives intersect at times. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Initial reviews were mixed, but it is now seen widely as her best work and one of the great English novels. — read by 'V' — Sign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by going to snoozecast.com/plus! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:34.5	Tonight, we'll read the opening to Middlemarch, a study of provincial life, written by English
1:44.1	author George Elliott Elliott and originally published
1:48.3	in 1871.
1:52.2	George Elliott is the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.
1:58.3	The novel is set in a fictional English Midlands town in the early 1800s, following many
2:07.9	separate characters whose lives intersect at times. Issues include the status of women,
2:16.6	the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education.
2:27.3	Initial reviews were mixed, but it is now seen widely as her best work and one of the great English novels.
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