George Eliot as Historian Reading Group, Week 4 - Science and Progress
18th May 2026, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Science and Progress
• Middlemarch, Book 4
• (Optional) Knoepflmacher, Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel, pp. 27-44
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!