And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.' - From Middlemarch According to Virginia Woolf, Middlemarch is 'one of the few English novels for grown-up people.' Middlemarch, probably George Eliot's most famous and comprehensive novel, intended as a study of provincial British life, was first published in 1871 and 1872, in eight parts, coming out every two months and has a wonderfully complex