This document summarizes the Victorian novel "Middlemarch" by George Eliot. It provides background on the novel's publication history and critical reception. The major characters - Dorothea Brooke, Will Ladislaw, Sir James Chettam, Reverend Edward Casaubon, and Nicholas Bulstrode - are introduced. The plot involves Dorothea's marriage to Casaubon and later relationship with Ladislaw, as well as Bulstrode's secret past coming to light.

1. Name: Gohil Khanjaniba M.
Class: MA(Part-1)(Semester-1).
Subject: The Victorian Literature.
Roll No: 15.
Submitted to: The Department Of English,
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University,
Bhavnagar.
MIDDLEMARCH
(PLOT WITH SECRETS)

2. George Eliot’s seventh novel:
“Middlemarch: A Study of provincial Life”,
Begun in 1869(1871-72).The novel was
appeared as a serial during 1871-1872.
GEORGE ELIOT

3. Virginia Woolf
suggests: “The magnificent book that, with all its imperfections, is
one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”.
Martin Amis and Julian Barnes
have cited it as probably the greatest novel in the English
language.
INFORMATION ABOUT
THE NOVEL

4. Will
Ladislaw
Dorothea
Brooke
Sir James
Chettam
Nicholas
Bulstrode
Reverend
Edward
Casaubon
MAJOR CHARACTERS IN
THE NOVEL

5. A picture of Dorothea Brooke
and
Will Ladislaw

6.  Sir James Chettam is in love with Dorothea, but he marries
Celia Brooke instead.
 Reverend Edward who just used Dorothea as a tool to
achieve his goal, but Dorothea came to know about his
reality after her marriage to him, in Rome.
 Dorothea seen Will Ladislaw as an unfortunate relative but
others doesn’t knows the actual circumstances.
 At the end of the novel Dorothea gives a shock to her
family informing that she will marry Will Ladislaw.
PLOT OF THE NOVEL

7.  Mr. Bulstrode, he is also religious zealot with a secret past.
 John Raffles blackmails him.
 Bulstrode was engaged with extensional financial dealings.
 Fortune to marry much more wealthy widow.
 Dorothea and Farebrother maintain faith in Lydgate.
 Main stories which are left suspended.
MINOR PLOT SECRET OF
THE NOVEL