Middlemarch

Spinoza, Feuerbach, and Rufus Sewell: George Eliot’s dream team Middlemarch (1872) is the greatest novel by Mary Ann Evans, the woman who called herself George Eliot. But, in encouraging news for all the novelists out there — it was by no means her first. She took a long run-up, with five previous novels and a book of starter-stories under her belt, plus translations of three obscure books of religious philosophy from German and Latin. And  she edited a major literary magazin