2/20/2024 0 Comments Download MiddlemarchHis very name carried an impressiveness hardly to be measured without a precise chronology of scholarship. This was the Reverend Edward Casaubon, noted in the county as a man of profound learning, understood for many years to be engaged on a great work concerning religious history also as a man of wealth enough to give lustre to his piety, and having views of his own which were to be more clearly ascertained on the publication of his book. Sir James Chettam was going to dine at the Grange to-day with another gentleman whom the girls had never seen, and about whom Dorothea felt some venerating expectation. So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s household, and did not at all dislike her new authority, with the homage that belonged to it. Cadwallader the Rector’s wife, and the small group of gentry with whom he visited in the northeast corner of Loamshire. But he himself dreaded so much the sort of superior woman likely to be available for such a position, that he allowed himself to be dissuaded by Dorothea’s objections, and was in this case brave enough to defy the world-that is to say, Mrs. Brooke to be all the more blamed in neighboring families for not securing some middle-aged lady as guide and companion to his nieces. Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of Middlemarch: In the neighborhood of a rural English town in the 1830s, several men and women. These peculiarities of Dorothea’s character caused Mr. Middlemarch: Medieval Discourses and Will Ladislaw JUDITH JOHNSTON Present-daycritics ofGeorge Eliot have glanced at, discussed, but given no undue significance to the medieval context in her work.
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