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The host recommended the novel as a historic work featuring a preindustrial Sabbath, noting its feminist plot and setting in an English village.
So that's the Nome de Plume of Marianne Evans. And her most famous novel, you've probably heard of it, is Middlemarch. But her first novel was called Adam B. And it's an incredible novel with what we...
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Episode: Best Of: Sabbath and the Art of Rest
The host recommended the novel as a historic work featuring a preindustrial Sabbath, noting its feminist plot and setting in an English village.
So that's the Nome de Plume of Marianne Evans. And her most famous novel, you've probably heard of it, is Middlemarch. But her first novel was called Adam B. And it's an incredible novel with what we would now call a feminist plot. And it's also set in an English village in the turn of the 19th century, you know, which is important because it's preindustrial.