My Life in Middlemarch

By Rebecca Mead

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead revisits George Eliot's novel Middlemarch, which she first read as a teenager and has reread throughout her life. Mixing memoir, biography and criticism, she traces Eliot's life and the places connected with the novel, and reflects on how its themes of marriage, ambition and vocation have shaped her own life. The book shows how a great novel can change meaning as a reader grows older.

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• Shane Parrish: “Rebecca Mead has written a book like no other I've come across. My Life In Middlemarch is an irresistibly creative story about how her favorite book, George Eliot's Middlemarch, changed her.”