Reading, Writing, Working, Playing

I've been wanting to reread George Eliot's masterpiece, Middlemarch , for awhile now, so decided to read it along with the GoodRe...

Between writing Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss , George Eliot wrote a short story, The Lifted Veil , that is quite different from anyth...

Last year I decided that George Eliot was going to be my new focus, having spent several years reading works by and about Elizabeth Gaskell....

I'm just about to start rereading Gaskell's last, unfinished novel, Wives and Daughters (Penguin Classics) , and so last night start...

Observations on both books that I'm currently reading. I'm sailing through Daphne , and am nearing the end. It is still as fascinat...

Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some wonderfully creepy stories-- The Old Nurse's Story, The Grey Woman, Lois the Witch , among others--and Sylv...