Such was the immediate and widespread interest in George Eliot's fiction, that, according to an early reviewer, the universal question in men's mouths... is have you read 'Adam Bede'?. In the 1990s, as evidenced by Eliot's central place in university courses on the novel, the Victorian period and feminism, and by a popular television adaptation of Middlemarch, this interest is undiminished.
Such was the immediate and widespread interest in George Eliot's fiction, that, according to an early reviewer, the universal question in men's mouths...
