![]() ![]() Then I widened my net to include both men and women. I began my writing career with biographies of 19th century women, so I could explore how real-life Dorotheas quietly cast off convention and achieved some measure of fulfilment. The novel's theme - the place of women in a changing but still patriarchal society - triggered my own interest in women's lives, past and present. As soon as I met Dorothea, the main character, I was drawn into her world and her dilemmas. I read it for the first time in my 20s, and I regularly re-read it. "Middlemarch by George Eliot is a masterpiece of Victorian literature, with its large cast and close observation of human nature. (Alexandre-Louis-François d'Albert-Durade/Penguin Classics) George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. ![]()
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