George Eliot as Historian Reading Group, Week 7 - Religion II: Faith and the Victorians
8th June 2026, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Religion II: Faith and the Victorians
• Middlemarch, Book 7
• (Optional) Bennett, God and Progress, ch. 1
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!