I only turned to this video adaptation having exhausted all of the Austen, Dickens and Trollope available. All fiction is autobiography to some extent, and Evans' novels are no exception. She was an adulteress and a social outcast who pretended to be married and pretended to be a man. Portraying her critics in her characters as professional and moral failures whose dreams and ambitions are frustrated and thwarted no doubt gave her some satisfaction. But in the end I look to be inspired. Middlemarch is neither inspired nor inspiring. In a time of central bank created strife, scarcity, want and struggle, I have no patience with uninspiring literature or its film adaptations.
Review of Middlemarch
