The life of Mary Ann Evans is the last place to examine marriage.

There are far better and more accessible presentations these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_vh4atOp5Q

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Sorry, but it's been a very long time since I've come across prose that's both hard to digest and yet so tedious.

>> "Carlisle lures us back to Eliot’s whole body of work, even to such unvisited tombs as [..]"

'Unvisited tombs'? Really?

Q: Do people pay to read this stuff?

It is a reference to the closing lines of Middlemarch:

"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

Don’t ruin perfectly good philistinism with your tedious facts. Whoever this Mr Eliot is, we have more important things to do, like fighting about Vim vs Emacs.

I’ve subscribed to the Point mag before but agree that this article is not a highlight. The quality of prose varies but for a literary and cultural criticism magazine that’s not one of the giants, I think it’s still worth supporting.

Not sure I've ever seen "unvisited tombs" before, but I had no trouble with the metaphor. Intuitive, not overused, in other words it works.

A. No, but if it's free I might scan it over.