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On Marriage by Devorah Baum review – endless love or life sentence?

The author and film-maker explores the landscape of matrimony in an erudite and entertaining quest for enlightenment

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Reader, I lived with him: why a happy ending doesn’t have to mean marriage

As more couples rip up the rulebook, attitudes towards romantic relationships are becoming less clear-cut – and art reflects that. Should we be celebrating a new kind of happily ever after?

The Guardian - UK

A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs review – on the shoulders of giants

The lives of female authors provide inspiration for a woman who finds herself starting over after divorce

The Guardian - UK

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Where to start with: George Eliot

Her uplifting and melancholy masterpieces include Middlemarch – but you can enjoy funny, wise stories that are less than 800 pages long too

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The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life review – one from the heart

Feminist philosopher Clare Carlisle illuminates George Elliot’s love life as well as the nightmarish marriages in her novels

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The Marriage Question by Clare Carlisle review – the lives and loves of George Eliot

A philosopher examines the meaning of relationships in the great novelist’s life and books

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'Unhappy, unfaithful women': middle-aged growth replaces self-absorption in Alex Miller's A Brief Affair

One of the most famous meditations in George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1872) is on the symbol of the pier-glass:

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Writing the seasons: In praise of autumn

Anita Sethi reflects on the season that has provided creative fuel for writers over the years

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Books by women that every man should read: chosen by Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Richard Curtis and more

Studies show men avoid female authors. Ahead of the Women’s prize for fiction, chair of judges Mary Ann Sieghart finds out why – and we ask male authors to redress the balance

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Great Middlemarch Mystery; The 47th; For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide…

A site-specific quest gets to the heart of George Eliot’s novel; Mike Bartlett makes a Shakespearean tragedy of Trump; and six young black men find full expression in Ryan Calais Cameron’s eloquent new play

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Middlemarch: a book for grownups

Editorial: George Eliot’s wise, empathetic book speaks to us eloquently of our own times

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Immersive show turns Middlemarch into 1980s murder mystery

Coventry audiences will take their own journeys through the production as 150th anniversary celebrated

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