Talk:Middlemarch

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Contents 1 Mary Garth 2 Morrisey trivia 3 Criticism of Dorothea 4 Time Top Ten

[edit] Mary Garth

I changed the line about Mary Garth's "publishing a volume of poetry" because the novel gives no indication that it is a book of poetry: "But when Mary wroet a little book for her boys, called Stories of Great Men, taken from Plutarch, and had it printed and published ..." (fifth paragraph of the Finale). My new version just says "published an historical volume for boys" and I encourage anyone else to improve upon the phrasing, but I think it's more accurate now.

[edit] Morrisey trivia

I added this. (God, I'm literate! :-)) SmokeyTheCat 14:43, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism of Dorothea

Citing some article second-rate journal seems like poor excuse to me for making the 'criticism' section notable. Judging by its lack of other citations its either a direct summary of the article, which doesn't seem encyclopedic, its using unsourced statements, or original claims. Without any arguement for in the next week I'll cut the section since it's unecyclopedic no matter how you slice it. Wilhelm Ritter 04:13, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Time Top Ten

Hmm. It seems that someone has added a reference to every book on the top ten list at http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1578073,00.html as being "named by Time as one of the top ten books of all time." This statement isn't really accurate; the online Time article is actually about a recent book (The Top Ten) which is just a compilation of various contemporary authors' personal top ten lists. To say that Time named any of these books as the "ten greatest of all time" is basically just incorrect.