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This document provides a summary of the Victorian novel Middlemarch by George Eliot as a study of provincial life in 19th century England. It examines marriages and relationships between key characters like Casauborn and Dorothea and Lydgate and Rosamond. Important themes of provincial life explored in the novel include a conservative and traditional society focused on money, social rank, status and trade alongside the influence of a decaying feudal system.Read less