My life in Middlemarch

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Label

My life in Middlemarch

Statement of responsibility

Rebecca Mead

Title variation

• Road to Middlemarch: my life with George Eliot
• My life with George Eliot

Creator

• trueMead, Rebecca

Author

• trueMead, Rebecca

Subject

• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• trueBooks and reading
• trueCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• trueElectronic books
• trueEliot, George, 1819-1880
• trueLife stories -- Arts and culture | Writing
• trueMarriage
• trueMead, Rebecca -- Books and reading
• trueReaders
• trueReading
• trueWomen journalists
• trueArts and Entertainment -- Writing and Publishing

Genre

• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• Electronic books
• trueLife stories
• trueArts and Entertainment

Language

eng

Summary

• "A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch-- and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories."--From publisher description
• "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 gaining admission to Oxford, and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several love affairs, then 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," offered Mead something that modern life and literature did not. In this wise and revealing work of biography, reporting, and memoir, Rebecca Mead leads us into the life that the book made for her, as well as the many lives the novel has led since it was written. Employing a structure that deftly mirrors that of the novel, 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 the way aspects of Mead's life uncannily echo that of Eliot herself, My Life in Middlemarch is for every ardent lover of literature who cares about why we read books, and how they read us."--From publisher description

Tone

• trueThought-provoking

Writing style

• trueEngaging
• trueStylistically complex

Award

Library Journal Best Books 2014

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.8

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult