<p>One of the great novels of nineteenth-century England, Middlemarch is concerned with the blighted marriage of a young idealistic woman, but also presents a vivid portrait of England during the 1830s.<p>
This is the challenge thrown down to Esther Lyon, George Eliot's heroine in FELIX HOLT: THE RADICAL (1866). Esther's 'airs and graces', her proud and sensitive dreams of marrying into a life of refinement are transformed in the course of the novel, as she makes her choice between Harold Transome, wh ...
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