Middlemarch

In nineteenth-century England, Dorthea Brooke''s wishes to defy social conventions are inhibited by the strict nature of her surroundings. Features Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; and the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career.