_This excerpt is drawn from the book “My Life in Middlemarch,” which comes out tomorrow. In the summer of 1871, while working on “Middlemarch,” George Eliot received a short letter from a young ...

Griff House, George Eliot’s childhood home, in which she lived from infancy until she was twenty-two, looks much as it did in the early nineteenth century, at least if you approach it from the front: ...

Lawrence Rainey's introduction to this book opens with an anecdote about a starstruck and tongue-tied Donald Hall, the American poet (and, like Eliot, a former editor of the Harvard Advocate), who ...

Eliot Brown writes about finance from The Wall Street Journal's London office. He previously covered startups and venture capital from San Francisco and commercial real estate from New York City. He ...

He promised “a new start”. I made no comment. What should I resent? No, not a response to the Tory leadership chaos but lines from TS Eliot’s The Waste Land. This month marks the centenary of the ...

“About my letters,” T.S. Eliot snarled at his mother, when she innocently offered, in early 1927, to return the trove she had received over the years. “For heaven’s sake don’t send them to me. If ...