The novel, when it first appeared, was a huge success, both with critics and readers it made Eliot's name as one of the greatest novelists in Britain, and her fame spread. Both are alike in their unhappy marriages, their social aspirations, and the way in which they react to societal pressure. Eliot then decided to build a world around these two characters, and create a more sweeping portrait of an entire town and its various inhabitants Lydgate and Dorothea acted essentially as the core of the novel, as two somewhat similar figures who were the soul of the novel.
Eliot worked on several different stories, starting with Lydgate and his trials as a young doctor then she worked on Dorothea's story, writing the first ten chapters as they appear in the finished book with only this character and her world in mind.
This was Eliot's most comprehensive and sweeping novel to date, and was intended as a study of provincial British life. Middlemarch was first published in 18, as a serial novel in eight parts, which came out every two months.
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