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“No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative... I doubt if any…

— V.S. Pritchett

For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.

— Claire Messud

“domestic competence utterly alien to her, a kind of miracle. He is saying, “I am in love with George Eliot! My god! Middlemarch! That…

— Gabriel Tallent

I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I…

— Julia Glass

I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.

— Eleanor Catton

T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close friend ever…

— Penelope Mitchell

My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George…

— A. S. Byatt

Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England…

— Paul Muldoon

“The sixties began what many admirers of Eliot would consider a bleak period. The anxiety of influence of the profession at large seemed to…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

“The decline of sustained close reading of Eliot is also related, ironically, to the emergence of historical scholarship regarding sources and allusions. The major…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.

— Virginia Woolf

“Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the…

— Rebecca Mead