George Eliot as Historian Reading Group, Week 5 - Gender and the Family
25th May 2026, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Gender and the Family
• Middlemarch, Book 5
• (Optional) Eliot, ‘Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft’
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!