Middlemarch
/ˈmɪdlmɑːtʃ/
/ˈmɪdlmɑːrtʃ/
- a novel (1871-2) by George Eliot, widely considered to be one of the greatest English novels. Its subtitle is A Study of Provincial Life and it presents a detailed picture of the attitudes and behaviour of a number of people in the imaginary middle-class town of Middlemarch.