George Eliot's Middlemarch?🐘

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I just finished listening to George Eliot's novel 'Middlemarch' after having watched the 1994 BBC TV series on DVD and can say I enjoyed both.

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Middlemarch read by Margaret Espaillat

I think I'm more intrigued and impressed with the semi-fictious story of Mary Ann Cross (AKA George Eliot/Mary Ann Evans) who seems to have put a lot of her own life story and thoughts into her fictional stories like 'Middlemarch' and 'The Mill on the Floss'.

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Middlemarch TV Mini Series (1994)

I've listened to some 'IDEAS' podcasts recently about the novel 'Middlemarch' and 'Picturing the Past' that are well worth a listen to, I think.

Ideas Podcast: Love and Consequences:
George Eliot's Middlemarch, Part One

Love and Consequences: George Eliot's
Middlemarch, Part Two

 Ideas Podcast: Picturing the Past: History Movies

From the special features of the 1994 BBC DVD

The town of Stamford where the BBC filmed the TV series

Middlemarch is a fictious English town, but is said to be based on Coventry, where Mary Ann Evans grew up in and around.

The Coventry City Flag

Coventry is a very interesting city, I think.

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The ELEPHANT in the room (Coventry)?-)

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As a young soccer player in my pre-teen years, I used to own and wear the blue, black and white Coventry City strip to soccer training, as it resembled the colours of my favourite Australian Rugby League team the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks.

My English neighbours bought me back the strip from a trip to England after I gave them some hard earned money of mine and asked them to get me the home kit of Coventry City.

My young teammates would wear their favourite English team's kit (or parts of it) to soccer training.

Teams I didn't like, like Liverpool, Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea, etc.

I liked going for underdog teams like Coventry, so the coincidence that their jersey matched my favourite Rugby League team's colours swayed me to go for them.  

Coventry Junior 22/23 Home Shirt

 Sharks home-jersey-2023--youth

I never had any ties to Coventry though and can't remember why I drifted away from them being my team (probably relegation to the minor leagues, which we in Australia couldn't watch or easily follow). 
Over the years I eventually settled on going for Tottenham (Spurs), as I figured if I ever moved to England I'd probably go to London, so I picked my favourite London club to follow.
I've still never been to England ... and looks like I may never will in this lifetime, the way the years are now flying by in my life.

I wouldn't mind visiting Coventry and London ... and maybe Bronte Country, too.

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Coventry Lucky Shamrock Dress Sock

Middlemarch is definitely a book I would read again ... God willing, that is;-)

Such is life as time Middlemarches on:-(