The text of Middlemarch is that of the 1874 edition, the last corrected by the author. Preface ix The Text of Middlemarch 1(674) Backgrounds Letter to Sara Sophia Hennell (9 October 1843) 519(13) George Eliot From The Natural History of German Life (1856) 520(1) From Amos Barton (1857) 521(1) Journal (30 November 1858) 522(1) From Adam Bede (1859) 523(3) Letter to Charles Bray (5 July 1859) 526(1) Letter to Mme. Eugene Bodichon (26 December 1860) 526(1) Letter to Mme. Eugene Bodichon (15 February 1862) 527(1) Letter to Frederic Harrison (15 August 1866) 528(1) Letter to Clifford Allbutt (August 1868) 529(1) From Notes on Form in Art (1868) 529(3) Journal (1 January 1869) 532(1) Letter to John Blackwood (7 May 1871) 532(1) George Henry Lewes Letter to George Eliot (20 July 1871) 533(1) John Blackwood Letter to John Blackwood (4 August 1872) 534(2) George Eliot Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe (October? 1872) 534(1) Journal (1 January 1873) 535(1) Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe (11 November 1874) 535(1) Letter to Annie Crow (24 September 1876) 536(1) Emily Davies From Leaves from a Notebook (1871-79) 537(36) George Eliot Quarry for ``Middlemarch'' 539(34) Criticism Contemporary Reviews Saturday Review • Middlemarch 573(2) [Sidney Colvin] • Middlemarch 575(3) George Eliot's Middlemarch 578(3) Henry James George Eliot 581(1) Joseph Jacobs [On Middlemarch] 582(5) Leslie Stephen Recent Criticism Fiction and the ``Matrix of Analogy'' 587(6) Mark Schorer History by Indirection: The Era of Reform in Middlemarch 593(4) Jerome Beaty Conservative Reform in Middlemarch 597(9) Cherry Wilhelm The Moral Imagination of George Eliot 606(12) Bert G. Hornback ``Stealthy Convergence'' in Middlemarch 618(5) Robert B. Heilman Women, Energy, and Middlemarch 623(7) Lee R. Edwards Middlemarch: The Romance of Vocation 630(10) Alan Mintz Middlemarch as a Religious Novel, or Life without God 640(9) T. R. Wright ``Not a Church, but an Individual Who Is His or Her Own Church'': Religion in George Eliot's Middlemarch 649(7) Matthew Rich What Rosy Knew: Language, Learning and Lore in Middlemarch 656(7) Alan Shelston Allusive Mischaracterization in Middlemarch 663(12) Claudia Moscovici A Chronology 675(2) George Eliot Selected Bibliography 677