Mary Ann Evans known by her name George Eliot is one of the greatest English Victorian novelists. Her work “Middlemarch” portrays nineteenth-century English provincial life. Novel’s protagonist Dorothea Brooke is a young woman who strives to strip up social change but faces resistance from the people around her. Eliot’s detailed description of characters and their stories result in a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people". “Middlemarch” has influenced many writers establishing Eliot among one of the best literary figures in the world.