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Middlemarch Reading Group: Week 7

08 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 7: Faith and the Victorians 

Reading

Middlemarch, book 7 

Optional 

Bennett, God and Progress, ch. 1. 

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

 

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