Rebecca Mead (born 24 September 1966) is an English writer and journalist.
Rebecca Mead was born in London, England. [1] When she was three years old she relocated with her family to the seaside town of Weymouth in Dorset, where she grew up. [1] Mead's father was a civil servant. [2] [3] As a teenager she became interested in left-wing politics. [4]
Mead studied English literature at the University of Oxford. [4]
After graduating from Oxford she won a full scholarship to study for a master's degree in journalism at New York University. [3]
While at NYU, Mead was employed as an intern by New York Magazine . [1] After graduation the magazine employed her as a fact checker. [1] After a few years she was promoted to features writer. [4] She joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1997. [5]
Mead published My Life In Middlemarch (The Road to Middlemarch in the UK) in 2014. A personal study of George Eliot's best-known novel, it received mixed reviews. [6] [7] [8]
Mead was naturalised as an American citizen in 2011 [3] and moved back to the United Kingdom in 2018. [3] [9] [10]
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Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). As with Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England; most of her works are set there. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside. Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.
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