My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead (Used – Very Good)

Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot’s Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After moving to the United States, through love affairs, marriage and family, Mead read and reread Middlemarch. The novel, which Virginia Woolf famously described as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people,”.

In this wise and revealing work of biography, reporting, and memoir, Rebecca Mead leads us into the life the book made for her. My Life in Middlemarch takes the themes of Eliot’s masterpiece–the complexity of love, the meaning of marriage, the foundations of morality, and the drama of aspiration and failure–and brings them into our world. Offering both a fascinating reading of Eliot’s biography and an exploration of how aspects of Mead’s life uncannily echo that of Eliot herself.