- ^ The title of this earlier work is put in quotes in order to distinguish it from the eventual novel of the same title.
- ^ The novel was completed before being published in eight instalments (volumes).
- ^ Long, Camilla (24 January 2010). "Martin Amis and the sex war". The Times. They've produced the greatest writer in the English language ever, George Eliot, and arguably the third greatest, Jane Austen, and certainly the greatest novel, Middlemarch ... (subscription required)
- ^ Jones, Nelson. "In a political arena largely devoid of obvious talent Michael Gove is a star turn". newstatesman.com. New Statesman. Retrieved 1 April 2015. Middlemarch, by contrast [to Twilight], though 150 years older, features a free-thinking, active and educated heroine. If we want our daughters to aspire, which provides the better role model?
- ^ Berry, Jill (15 May 2013). "Michael Gove is wrong: why shouldn't students read Twilight?". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 April 2015. I think she would be better starting with Silas Marner or The Mill on the Floss and leaving Middlemarch until she had greater life experience and emotional maturity.
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