![]() Dorothea is an unlikely role model for contemporary feminists. There are two main exemplary (proto-) feminist characters in Middlemarch, a town seemingly based on the West Midlands town of Coventry. My short feminist review can only analyse a fraction of the content. Since the novel is complex, I recommend you buy a copy with footnotes, such as the Wordsworth Classics budget paperback edition, and because there is a marvellous and remarkably faithful serialised BBC TV adaptation (1994), I urge you to read the book and watch the miniseries. ![]() ![]() The happiness of woman is: he wills." Friedrich Nietzsche's line in Thus Spake Zarathustra elegantly sums up the role of women at the time George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), who like the Brontë sisters hid behind a male pen name, wrote her 1870s Victorian classic Middlemarch (1871/72), and it also applies to the time period of her book, masterfully describing pre-Victorian provincial English life before the first British Reform Bill of 1832, which brought minor improvements to a small portion of the (male) population Eliot also incorporates some truly superb character studies. ![]()
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