On the face of it, this surge of interest in Eliot’s best-known work might seem unremarkable. Since the start of the pandemic, it’s felt to me as though everyone has been reading Middlemarch. But regardless of whether Taylor had Eliot’s provincial character on her mind when she named the track, our reaction to it encapsulated the novel’s uncanny ubiquity in recent months. A little sadly for us, the lyrics of “Dorothea” don’t support the connection we quickly drew to Dorothea Brooke, fictional heroine of George Eliot’s Victorian novel Middlemarch. After managing the estate for many years, he is eventually able to purchase it.When Taylor Swift first released the track list for her latest cottagecore album, a certain corner of literary Twitter lit up over the title of its eighth song. Fred tends to the estate and marries Mary with her father's blessing. Caleb Garth is able to arrange for Fred to live at Stone Court, the land that Fred once thought he stood to inherit. His job will involve watching over the Tipton Grange and Freshitt estates. Mary’s father is able to help Fred by offering to train him as an apprentice. Fred struggles to cope with the reality of his life, unable to commit to a career that he feels comfortable with. Fred has a debt that he is unable to repay he had hoped that his rich uncle would leave him a large inheritance but the money was left instead to his uncle's illegitimate son. She hopes that time will help him grow into the type of man she wants him to be. Mary is certain that Fred is the only man she could love, but at the same time, is in no rush to marry him. Fred and Mary have been attracted to each other since childhood.
Other characters in the novel include Mary Garth and Fred Vincy.
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