<i>'We must lay upon her grave whatever we have it in our power to bestow of laurel and rose,'</i> Virginia Woolf wrote of George Eliot in 1919, appraising the author's work.<br>

Eliot's magnum opus deals with issues of morality, love, idealism and political upsurge within the

realistic setting of a nineteenth-century English town. It is a slow, gripping burn which grasps the

reader's attention through its mundanity. Broken marriages, political agendas, failures and changing

fortunes within a closely knit community are what this text offers, while simultaneously relating to

a world of reachable possibilities.<br>

Having stood the test of time, <i>Middlemarch</i> has been passed through generations beyond the

spatial and temporal boundaries to be known as one of the most nuanced texts in the history of

English Literature.