{"id":3337,"date":"2014-02-11T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T18:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2014-02-11T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T18:53:13","slug":"life-stories-62-rebecca-mead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/11\/life-stories-62-rebecca-mead\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Stories #62: Rebecca Mead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This episode of Life Stories<\/i>, offers a slight change of pace, as Rebecca Mead<\/a>‘s My Life in Middlemarch<\/i><\/a> is more than a memoir. In addition to discussing what she’s taken from her various readings of George Eliot’s novel over the course of her adult life, Mead also offers a biographical appreciation of Eliot and a touch of literary criticism. It’s still a profoundly personal book, though, and that comes through in our conversation—highlights of which you can read at Buzzfeed Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Rebecca Mead first read George Eliot’s Middlemarch as a teenager in England, and she’s returned to the novel about every five years or since — and what she discovers in her reading is much different now than it was then. My Life in Middlemarch discusses how her attitudes towards the story’s characters have changed, as well as offering an appreciation of Eliot’s role in literature from a deeply personal perspective. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[737,132,738,739,305,736],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}