by Rebecca Mead
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...
When I read the title and the book description, I thought this would be a book about Rebecca Mead's experiences and how she related them to George Eliot's life and the lives of Dorothea Brook and the other characters in Mead's beloved Middlemarch. Although that is a theme of the book, it's a minor t...
I admit that I felt very dubious about this book. What could be the point of a book about loving Middlemarch, I wondered? Many contemporary authors who love something go on to ruin it by publishing novels placed in the same world with the same characters, or putting the same characters in a slightly...
You don’t have to have read Middlemarch to enjoy this book length reflection on and study of it, but My Life in Middlemarch may make you want to get your hands on a copy of George Eliot's classic novel. Layered and deeply considered, My Life in Middlemarch is a fairly brief (278 pages of text) and ...
Hey, it's a whole book about one of my favorite books! Which, okay, so what? Man, I was talking about how much I like Wilkie Collins the other day, and some dude was like oh hey then you should read Dan Simmons' [b:Drood,|3222979|Drood|Dan Simmons|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/13442700...
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