Middlemarch, by George Eliot.
You are an unusual early 19th century young Englishwoman, who marries for intellect, thinking you will be welcomed into a life of the mind, but things don’t go well for you, or anyone else in town, really, as your generation’s ideas of reform, both social and political, bump into the wall of respectability that governs, and limits, all.
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