Eliot's house

Michael Bloomberg now owns George Eliot's house. @Rebeccamead_NYC draws lessons for the ex-mayor from "Middlemarch." http://t.co/KXFj9gSVzd

— TNY Culture Desk (@CultureDesk) July 29, 2015

The article at the link contains this interesting observation about Middlemarch

Among Britain’s governing élite, not knowing the book, or not liking it, is something of an embarrassment to be explained away.