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Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

Middlemarch and the Rocky Road to the Reform Act of 1832

Posted by: Margaret Wood

I spent my summer vacation at Dickens Universe on the University of California Santa Cruz campus. In anticipation of the bicentenary of George Eliot’s birth, this year’s book was Middlemarch, rather than the usual novel by Dickens.  I had promised the blog team that I would write a post on Middlemarch after attending this literary fest. …