This document summarizes the Victorian novel Middle March by George Eliot. It provides background on the author, whose real name was Mary Anne Evans, and lists her major works. For Middle March, it outlines the vague English Midlands setting, and discusses several major plotlines involving characters like Dorothea Brooke, Rosamond Vincy, and Dr. Lydgate. The document notes themes in the novel like social position, love, self-discovery, money, and politics. It also describes the large crowd of characters and complex relationships between them.

2. Name: Drashti P. Nagla
Roll No. : 9
Paper no : 6 The Victorian Literature
Presentation topic: About the novel Middle March
Enrolment no: 2069108420170021
M.A English semester – 2
Beach year : 2016-18
Submitted to – Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University.

3. About the author: George Eliot
 Original name of the author was Marry
Anne Evans.
 George Eliot was her pen name.
 She was born on November 22, 1819 at
South Farm.
 She was the youngest of five children.
 She was known as the English author and
novelist.
 She was died in December 22, 1880.
 Her major works are:
1. Adam Bede (1859) her 1st Novel
2. Mill on the Floss (1860)
3. Felix Holt (1866)
4. Middle March (1871-72)
5. Daniel Deronda (1874-76) last novel
6. Silas Marner (short novel)

4. About the Novel: Middle March
• Setting of the novel
• Plot of the novel
• Themes of the
novel
• Relationship of the
characters
•Crowd of the
characters

5. Setting of the Novel:
 In Middle March the novelist returns once
again to the English Midlands in which her
girlhood had been passed and which had
fertilized her imagination.
 The location of Middle March has been left
unknown and vague: the setting has not been
precisely described, as is the case with the
other early novels like, ‘Adam Bede’, ‘Silas
Marner’, ‘ Mill on the Floss’.

6. Plot of the Novel:
Rosamond – Iydgate story
Dorothea – Casaubon – Ladislaw –
story
Bulstrode’s episode
Fred vincy – Mary – Garth story

7. Theme in the novel:
Social
Position
Love
Self
Discovery
Money
Politics

8.  Love keeps people together in Middle March
we can see in relationship of characters:
Ladislow
Fred Vincy
Will
Dorothea
Mary Garth
Dorothea

9.  We can see there were crowd of
characters in Middle March:
Dorothea Brooke Dr. Tertius Lydgate
Celia Brooke Fred Vincy
Mr. Brooke Mary Grath
Edward Casaubon Caleb Grath
Rosamond Vincy Mrs. Grath

10.  The canvas of Middle March is a crowded,
one it is a long novel running into over eight
hundred minutely printed page in the
penguin edition. so that all of them cannot
even be named in the space.
 conclusion:
“The book if full of high feeling ,
wisdom and acuteness. It contains some of
the most moving dramatic scene in our
literature.”