George Eliot as Historian Reading Group, Week 3 - Politics I: Inheritance and Society
11th May 2026, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Politics I: Inheritance and Society
• Middlemarch, Book 3
• (Optional) Poon, ‘Inheritance and Succession in George Eliot’s Late Fiction’
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!