Middlemarch Reading Group: Week 8

Name: Middlemarch Reading Group: Week 8
Start: 2026-06-15T17:00:00+0100
End: 2026-06-15T17:00:00+0100

15 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!

Week8: Eliot as Historian

Reading

Middlemarch, book 8 and finale

Optional Reading

Woolf on Eliot

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

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