During a brief private getaway, two women bemoan their confined stations in life and look to books and plays as the answer to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Do you know, I think we are a little like very fine performers in a theatrical play,” says Cara Bray to Mary ...

There’s a nagging irony at the centre of Bird Grove. This play about the young Mary Ann Evans – aka future literary titan George Eliot – features copious scenes of her expressing frustration that only ...

Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans, known to the world by her pen name George Eliot, was a woman who could understand the gravity of transformation. Writing under a male pseudonym to ensure her work ...

A pensioner has tragically passed away from a disease similar to cholera, a full 125 years after the UK eradicated the epidemic. The father of two, in his 80s, fell ill at home last week with symptoms ...

Eliot Cutler, left, talks with his lawyer Walter McKee before a hearing in Hancock County Court in April 2023. (Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer) Eliot Cutler, the disgraced former Maine gubernatorial ...

A popular shop at Nuneaton's hospital has closed its doors. The WH Smith branch at the George Eliot Hospital currently has its doors closed. It is understood that this is so that the branch can have a ...

The meaning behind the Quote of the day lies in its emphasis on process rather than impulse. George Eliot challenges the romantic notion that success arrives in dramatic bursts. Instead, she points to ...

Poet’s sixth collection explores the destruction of the natural world, with a perspective shaped by her upbringing in rural Canada The Canadian poet Karen Solie has won the 2025 TS Eliot poetry prize ...

George Eliot is one of the most popular novelists of English literature. She was born as Mary Ann Evans but took George Eliot as her pen name. Eliot was unique. She was not the typical Victorian lady ...

Elizabeth Dulau and Owen Teale will star in the world premiere of Bird Grove, a new play by Alexi Kaye Campbell, at Hampstead Theatre. The cast also includes Jonnie Broadbent, Jolyon Coy, Tom Espiner, ...

Tony Gilroy’s wildly acclaimed Disney+ Star Wars series Andor has made breakout stars of numerous actors, many of whom were already well-established Brit theatre stalwarts – Denise Gough and Kyle ...