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With excellent research available on the publication history of Middlemarch, including work by John Sutherland, N. N. Feltes, Carol Martin, David Finkelstein and others, it may seem surprising that an entire book has now been devoted to the topic.…

Two recent books address the important subject of how and why George Eliot represents his-tory in her fiction. Neil McCaw's George Eliot and Victorian Historiography is concerned pri-marily with Eliot's relationship to Victorian history writing - to…

It is impossible not to be impressed by Barbara Leigh-Smith Bodichon. Her life is interesting for its diversity, rather than for any single accomplishment, and therefore she has posed a chal-lenge for biographers. Most accounts of Bodichon, such as…

The intensity of Edith Jemima Simcox's passion for George Eliot has been known to a twen-tieth-century reading public since the publication of K. A. McKenzie's Edith Simcox and George Eliot in 1961. McKenzie's book is a combination of summary and…

George Eliot's last published work, Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879), has hither-to not been much read or attended to by readers, critics, or even scholars. Now two edi-tions have appeared almost simultaneously, both annotated and furnished…

Focusing on the figure of the 'fallen woman' in nineteenth-century fiction, Tom Winnifrith's Fallen Women in the Nineteenth-Century Novel examines the sexual mores of fictional characters in the context of nineteenth-century sexual values generally,…