My Life in Middlemarch
by:
Rebecca Mead (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385676861 (0385676867)
Publish date: January 28th 2014
Publisher: Bond Street Books
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
Biography Memoir
Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining admission to Oxford, and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several love affairs, then marriage and family,...
While I’ve read probably close to a dozen books that can be classified as bibliomemoir, this is the first I’ve encountered that focuses on a single book as opposed to a selection or progression of many. Rebecca Mead has both physical and emotional ties to Middlemarch, having grown up in the same sor...
bookshelves: summer-2015, lit-crit, lit-richer, nonfiction, author-in-the-mirror, autobiography-memoir, published-2014, books-about-books-and-book-shops Read from June 30 to July 04, 2015 Description: Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's M...
I received a free e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest review from Blogging For Books. I came to read George Eliot's Middlemarch, as a lowly scholar of English Literature in a fascinating class called: Women in Literature. I really enjoyed the book, so when I saw this title, I knew I was ...
This review is brought to you by THIS BOOK IS OVERDUE AT THE LIBRARY! SOMEBODY HAS A HOLD ON IT! FINES ARE RACKING UP AS WE SPEAK! HURRY UP AND WRITE YOUR DANGED REPORT, ALREADY!Okay. So. This book is a biography of a book. Specifically, it’s the biography of one woman and how she and a life-changin...