Claudia FitzHerbert

Middlemarch: the novel that reads you

A review of Rebecca Mead's The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot. Too much 'my life', not enough George Eliot

Portrait of George Eliot, aged 30, by François d’Albert-Durade, whose family she lived with while in Switzerland [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]

  • The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot

    Rebecca Mead

    Granta, pp. 293

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