"A book may not tell us how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book" (110). This straight forward passage highlights Mead's relationship with Eliot's masterpiece. Like William Deresiewicz'z "A Jane Austen Education" or Maureen Corrigan's "So We Read On", Mead ta...
I thoroughly enjoyed My Life in Middlemarch, which I listened to as an audio book immediately after finishing the audio book Middlemarch. I was expecting a memoir, which it was to some extent. But to a greater extent, it was a biography of George Eliot. It told the story of Eliot’s life as it ...