What is a woman to do with herself? That question has inspired probably hundreds of thousands of novels over the past 200 years, but never with more triumphant result than in George Eliot’s Middlemarch.
I ended up listening to The Mill on the Floss twice through, and for that I blame the fact that I have been doing more running and less stair-climbing recently.
R.J.B. Bosworth’s Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 is an intermittently interesting but deeply, deeply flawed social history of — well just what it says, life under Mussolini’s dictatorship.