Talia Effin Right’s Reviews > Middlemarch > Status Update

Eliot writes with this easy, adult sensitivity to her world. She expects you to read, to find out if you don't know, to pay attention and to listen. She draws your attention the way a renaissance master's painting draws the eye through passages of symbols and full representation. High contrast drama of men on the page, elegant chiaroscuro in the lives of women and their struggles tantalisingly obscure.