![]() ![]() ![]() The author and Dorothea shared a respect for certain middle-class values, including women subjugating their own work to help their husbands. The series is airing in the United States on PBS. The BBC production of ``Middlemarch'' was an instant hit when it was broadcast earlier this year in England. The novel was one of Eliot's great successes, a bestseller in its day and once again this year following an acclaimed television version. ![]() ![]() He privately called her Dorothea or Dodo, because she was so like the heroine of her novel ``Middlemarch.'' ``Now in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes, steals forth and charms the mind, so that you end as I ended, falling in love with her.''Įliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, was fortified both by education and by an enduring but unconventional affair with a married man, George Lewes. ``She has a low forehead, a dull gray eye, a vast pendulous nose, a huge mouth full of uneven teeth. ``To begin with she is magnificently ugly - deliciously hideous,'' the American novelist Henry James wrote to his father. She was so ugly that her father feared she would never attract a man, so he made sure she had an education. ![]()
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