Title Page: Book 1, Miss Brooke, Middlemarch by George Eliot
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Title
Title Page: Book 1, Miss Brooke, Middlemarch by George Eliot
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Creator
William Blackwood and Sons
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Description
The original green paper-covered cover of Book 1 "Miss Brooke" of Middlemarch, published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1871. This exhibit tracks the advertisements contained within the serialization as material evidence of a possible reading of the coupled repressions the novel encodes across its eight books.
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Source
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/44009750-087d-0133-b0e8-58d385a7bbd0
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Bibliographic Citation
Eliot, George. Miss Brooke. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871. Vol. 1 of Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. 8 vols. 1871-1872. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle. Accessed April 2, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/44009750-087d-0133-b0e8-58d385a7bbd0
