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George Eliot is best known for Middlemarch, but she also wrote an early work of science fiction

George Eliot – the pen name of Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans – is celebrated today as a writer of realist novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Middlemarch (1871) and Daniel Deronda (1876).

The Conversation

Like Jane Eyre, I’ve been seen as unconventional and abnormal. I’m autistic – is she too?

Nearly 200 years since Charlotte Brontë published Jane Eyre, her unconventional orphan Jane – with her intense emotions and sense of injustice – continues to captivate and intrigue readers.

The Conversation

I Finished Binge-Watching The Gilded Age, And I Need Way More Gladys In Season 4

Let The Duchess reign!

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I Just Binged Watched The Gilded Age, And I Need To Talk About Its Most Ridiculous Plot Twist

I still can't believe this happened!

Cinemablend

Jane Eyre at Sadler’s Wells: 'thickets of men blunt the emotional force'

3/5 Northern Ballet’s take on Jane Eyre is faithful to the book but is a little over-stuffed

Evening Standard

A Cruel Love: from Toby Jones to Lucy Boynton, who plays who in the Ruth Ellis drama?

The show tells the tragic story of the last woman in the UK to be hanged for murder

Evening Standard

Ruth Ellis: the tragic story of the last woman to be hanged for murder in the UK

Her story is being made into ITV show A Cruel Love, which is due to air later this year

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John Wick, Bertha, Supreme Grandeur and Timeless Romance please

John Wick, Bertha, Supreme Grandeur and Timeless Romance pleased when the horses were exercised in Chennai on Monday morning (Dec. 18).

The Hindu

Fridge magnate: John Roberts, the man who founded AO World ‘for a bet’

The boss who sells us appliances by the thousand is chilled about Mike Ashley’s stake in the company, but hot on recycling and the need for the rich to give back

The Guardian - UK

A Grateful Dead drag tribute band are playing a show in protest at Tennessee’s recent drag ban

Grateful Dead drag tribute band Bertha claim to be the freak result of a mix-up between DNA from Jerry Garcia's severed finger and Woodstock's infamous brown acid

Louder

Fat cat Big Bertha weighed almost 2st when she was found dumped in a sports bag

She is now much healthier

Wales Online

Man doesn't care his 'cool' name is extinct and thinks it will make a comeback

31 names were listed as having died out last year

Wales Online

New research identifies England’s oldest surviving church

Its construction marked ‘the official relaunch of Christianity in what would become England’ says archaeology professor

The Independent UK

Dad's escape from Nazis as 2 tracks went out of Germany but only one led towards freedom

The extraordinary, moving story of one family and the Final Solution, has now been told by Fred’s son, Peter Bradley, a former Labour MP for The Wrekin in Shropshire, in new book The Last Train

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Laurie Hertzel: Sentiment prompts readers to cherish their worn-out books

Readers say their old books are more than objects: They are physical reminders of love.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ll miss her firm hugs’: loved ones to be remembered on Celebration Day

Guardian readers share tributes to people they will celebrate during the inaugural event on 26 June

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In Daisy & Woolf, Michelle Cahill revisits a modernist classic to write a story of her own

Michelle Cahill’s Daisy Woolf takes its epigraph and its inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929): “A woman writing thinks back through her mothers.”

Daily Mirror

Grandma lays out 'funeral rules' insisting her guests get drunk and do shots

Lillian Droniak, 92, has set out some strict stipulations for people attending her final send-off - and while they're simple requests, she wants to make sure they are followed

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The Independent UK

92-year-old grandmother reveals amusing list of rules for her funeral: ‘Cry but not too much’

‘And you better get drunk afterward’

Los Angeles Times

Review: How HBO's dreary 'Gilded Age' fails the tumultuous era it depicts

In HBO's "The Gilded Age," Julian "Downton Abbey" Fellowes transfers his interest in rich people and the people who serve them from early 20th-century England to late 19th-century New York. Once again, it's an upstairs-downstairs, extravagantly dressed soap opera set against a background of social change, as a self-styled aristocracy…

Chicago Sun-Times

‘The Gilded Age’: Another smart, lavish period piece from ‘Downton Abbey’ creator

On instantly addictive HBO soaper, Julian Fellowes explores an 1882 wealth explosion in New York City.

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