Miss Brooke
by George Eliot
0 LikesShe wanted a cause worth kneeling for. She found a man who wanted a servant.
Dorothea Brooke is nineteen and certain her life must mean something larger than needlepoint and marriage prospects. When the aging scholar Edward Casaubon proposes, she believes she's found her calling devotion to his great work, and through him, to something eternal. Her sister sees only a cold man twice her age.
Meanwhile, new doctor Tertius Lydgate arrives in town with reforming zeal, unaware how thoroughly a small place can swallow an outsider.
- Published
- Jan. 1, 1871