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I live on a small farm in Michigan. My favorite novelist is Jane Austen. I read, take care of animals, and bake sourdough bread. More…RSS
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Tag Archives: Tertius Lydgate
Middlemarch: Two Temptations
The seventh book of Middlemarch is not cheerful. In it, the Lydgates’ marriage continues to disintegrate and Mr. Bulstrode shamefully rids himself of his persecutor, Raffles. While reading “Two Temptations”, the thought popped into my head that Rosy and Esther … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, Books, George Eliot, literature, marriage, Middlemarch, Rosamond Vincy, Tertius Lydgate
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Middlemarch: The Widow and the Wife
Fred Vincy has a job; Lydgate and Rosamond’s marriage is collapsing (Rosy is, I believe, the “Wife” of the book’s title); Mr. Bulstrode is threatened with exposure of past misdeeds and tries to make reparation; Will Ladislaw finds out about … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, Books, Fred Vincy, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Nicholas Bulstrode, Tertius Lydgate, Will Ladislaw
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The East Room 