![]() And while Silas Marner is much shorter than Middlemarch, the world Eliot conjures in Raveloe is nevertheless similarly rich and full and detailed, a real fake place, a spot in the Eliotverse). (Lantern Yard and Raveloe are both Eliot’s inventions, like Middlemarch in Middlemarch. Divided from the only community he knows, he loses faith in humanity and religion, leaves his “native place” Lantern Yard in Northern England, and moves to Raveloe, a village in the Midlands. Falsely accused of theft, he is excommunicated from his church. ![]() ![]() The novel is set in England at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and its plot goes something like this:Īs a young man, Silas Marner, a weaver, is a member of a nonconformist church with Calvinist tendencies. ![]() I have just now finished George Eliot’s novel Silas Marner, which I enjoyed. ![]()
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