Middlemarch - George Eliot Niek Hendriks In the course of her

In the course of her daily life - Saturday chores

Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging

maar met een wijde boog om de Kluis heen

Maar Strafford is niet de enige die op pad gaat

In Le Spleen de Paris schetst hij portretten van rouwende weduwen

Middlemarch - George Eliot Niek Hendriks In the course of herGeorge Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career;