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<span style=”color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;”>Taking place in the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832,&nbsp;</span><i style=”color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;”>Middlemarch</i><span style=”color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;”>&nbsp;explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel’s rich comic vein</span><br>