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Tag Archives: Middlemarch
Will Ladislaw
Well, you don’t know Will, do you? I don’t know him very well either, but he is becoming a pesky 9th character in Middlemarch by George Eliot. If you’ve been following along, you’ve been introduced to eight main characters. I’m … Continue reading
National Puzzle Day! (January 29th) and . . .Middlemarch
Wow! big day here—National Puzzle Day. It’s a state holiday here in Pennsylvania—everything is closed up and people are home doing puzzles!
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Tagged Casaubon, Dorothea, Middlemarch, New Yorker dog puzzle
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Setting a Cast for Middlemarch–part 2
Boy, I’m treading on thin ice here. How can I keep an audience with this stuff?? But–I’m in it for the long run and I’m ready with the photos of the other four main characters in Middlemarch.
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Tagged Dr. Lydgate, Fred Vincy, Mary Garth, Middlemarch, Rosamond
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Setting a Cast for Middlemarch characters
I don’t know how far along you are in reading Middlemarch by George Eliot, but before I get much further, I want to get the eight main characters set in my mind– with pictures! Today, just four—let’s keep this reasonable!
Middlemarch . . .Book Two!
What! it’s in sections? I just finished reading about the Vincys—very important family in the Middlemarch area –and beautiful Rosamond Vincy is going to be a —
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Tagged Dr. Lydgate, Fred Vincy, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Rosemond Vincy
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And a bit more about Middlemarch, up to chap 11
Well, fine kettle of fish–thinks Mrs. Cadwallader–she’s the neighbor of the Brookes and therefore thinks she has a full hand in any proposed marriages to take place involving Dorothea and Celia.
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Tagged Casaubon, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Sir James Chettam
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A little bit about Middlemarch
I don’t know how far along I’ll carry these comments, but I’d like to share a little bit about Middlemarch with you.