Ann Hulbert
Literary Editor at The Atlantic
Literary Editor, @TheAtlantic. Author, Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies.
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Sep 7, 2023 |
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“Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings.” George Eliot wrote those sentences in her 1872 masterpiece, Middlemarch, an examination of marriage unmatched by any other. She scrutinized the relationship—its intimate secrets and its public contours—with rare imaginative and moral intensity in her other fiction too. But that fearsome declaration, uttered by her protagonist Dorothea Brooke, stands out.
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