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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Rebecca Mead Reading Monday, April 7, 2014 "A stylish meditation," My Life In Middlemarch, is "a personal reflection on Eliot's masterpiece and the meanings it's had for Rebecca Mead, a British journalist living in New York City. . . . Mead is determined to make the novel that Virginia Woolf famously described as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" accessible again, to a culture whose definition of maturity has altered over the 150 years since Middlemarch was published. Eliot subtitled her book "A Study of Provincial Life", and its interest in ordinary lives is paralleled by Mead's interest in ordinary readers, the novel's wide perspective that, Mead contends, "makes Middlemarchers of us all". —The GuardianRebecca Mead was educated at Oxford and NYU, and is a staff writer at the New Yorker. She is the author of My Life in Middlemarch (Crown, 2014). She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son. Location: RKC 103 Sponsor: Italian Studies Program; Literature Program Contact: Joseph Luzzi. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7150 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/news/events/