This week in the magazine, Rebecca writes about George Eliot and "Middlemarch." Join her online today at 3 P.M. E.T. for a live chat. Click here to set an e-mail reminder and to join the chat. When I ...

Griff House, George Eliot’s childhood home, in which she lived from infancy until she was twenty-two, looks much as it did in the early nineteenth century, at least if you approach it from the front: ...

When George Eliot agreed (reluctantly, by all accounts) to have her portrait made in 1865, she surely never imagined that her face would be forever linked with her published works. Yet today when we ...

You couldn’t ask for a better guide through the intriguing life of novelist George Eliot than British-born Rebecca Mead, a staff writer at The New Yorker, who first read Eliot’s Middlemarch as an ...

“A marriage is so hideously private,” the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch wrote in 1978. “Whoever illicitly draws back that curtain may well be stricken, and in some way that he can least ...

THE writer of these pages has observed that the first question usually asked in relation to Mr. Cross’s long-expected biography is whether the reader has not been disappointed in it. The inquirer is ...

Statue defenders have been mocked for standing between Black Lives Matter protesters and a sculpture of writer George Eliot . A group of men, including veterans, stood guard over the George Eliot ...

It had all the drama of an illicit teenage elopement. At dawn on June 20, 1854, Marian Evans (known to us as George Eliot), madly in love and abandoning all propriety, slipped out of her house in ...

Delve into the history and anecdotes behind the varied and fascinating places visited on the official George Eliot Country guided tours. Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council celebrate the area's most ...

Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council celebrate the area's most famous daughter, George Eliot, with tours of her old haunts. Called the George Eliot Country guided tours, they take in a great range of ...