Middlemarch Title Page

Circular, grayscale illustration of a town with buildings obscured by trees and bushes.

This title page illustration introduces the novel’s central themes: the complexities of vocation and life in a provincial setting. The illustration may depict Lowick Manor and its neighboring church, the somber estate where Dorothea Brooke begins her stifling marriage to the scholarly Edward Casaubon. "[T]he great oak shadowing a bare place in mid-pasture; the high bank where the ash-trees grew; the sudden slope of the old marl-pit making a red background for the burdock; the huddled roofs and ricks of the homestead without a traceable way of approach.." (Book 1, Chapter 12).

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Michael Steele

George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org

1872

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Unknown, Middlemarch Title Page, George Eliot Illustrations Gallery, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/83316