Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life: Bookmarked: On Politics and Power

Voted the twenty-first best novel of all the time by The Guardian, is considered perhaps the greatest Victorian novel of all the time, praised by writers from Emily Dickinson to Virginia Woolf. George Eliot's ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of life in a provincial English community. In the latest volume in Ig's acclaimed Bookmarked series, critically lauded author Pamela Erens talks about how Middlemarch "rescued" as both a distressed college student, as well as during the tumult and anxiety of the tragic and unprecedented events of 2020.