Set during the political upheavals of 19th Century England, Middlemarch
is an epic story of love, politics, and passion. The novel follows lives
of the ambitious young Doctor Lydgate as he takes up his position at
Middlemarch's new hospital, and Dorothea Brooke who desperately wants to
make something of her life; however, as a woman she is forbidden the
study of Greek and Latin and no one takes her notions of societal
improvement seriously.