Middlemarch Reading Group: Week 6

Name: Middlemarch Reading Group: Week 6
Start: 2026-06-01T17:00:00+0100
End: 2026-06-01T17:00:00+0100

01 June 2026

Date: Monday 27 April
Time: 17:00-18:00
Venue: All Souls, Hovenden Room

The historicist tone of Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-2) has been commented on by readers from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith. This reading group seeks to explore the historical richness found in Eliot's study of provincial life.

Tea and biscuits provided!

Week 6: Politics 2: The Reform Bill

Reading

Middlemarch, book 6

Optional

Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical

Contact: mrinalini.wadhwa@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Intellectual History Across Borders

28 September

john rogers herbert assertion of liberty of conscience by the independents of the westminster assembly of divines

Spiritual and Secular Authority in Early Modern Europe: Trans-Regional Perspectives

29 September

Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

30 September

Forecasting the Weather Between Divination and Science

08 October to 09 October

Catherine Ross (Met Office), The D-Day forecast – From synoptic charts to the silver screen

08 October

Louisiane Ferlier (Royal Society, London), Before the Forecast: The Royal Society’s Meteorological Archive as Prelude to the Met Office

09 October