Books Quote by V.S. Pritchett

I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before.

— Stephen Dobyns

“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

At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel as carefully…

— Michel Faber

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

“Length, I want to suggest, has a peculiar significance for the reader of a Victorian novel and especially so if we are concerned with…

— Ian Gregor

There's such a wealth of literature from the 18th century and 19th century, George Eliot... Jane Austen... that's all about a genteel high society,…

— Steven Knight

Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in English. Mead…

— Harold Bloom

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

— David Duchovny

“T. S. Eliot and Jean-Paul Sartre, dissimilar enough as thinkers, both tend to undervalue prose and to deny it any imaginative function. Poetry is…

— Iris Murdoch

“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

“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

“Victorian novels come to us, that is, poised between questions of outer and inner, public and private life; they tend to contrast and nally…

— Hilary Schor