MiddlemarchBy: George Eliot One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'One of the few English novels written for grown up people' Virginia Woolf George Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar