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Felix Holt, the Radical is an 1866 social and political novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Set in an English Midlands town during the 1832 Reform Act era, it examines how national political change is filtered through local rivalry, class tension, and private moral choice. The story centers on an election in which Harold Transome, a wealthy landowner with conservative family roots, presents himself as a radical for strategic reasons, while Felix Holt represents a more principled but less socially polished form of reform-minded opposition. A parallel plot follows Esther Lyon, the stepdaughter of a dissenting clergyman, whose hidden claim to the Transome estate makes inheritance, identity, and marriage part of the novel’s political design. Eliot uses this structure to test the distance between slogans and integrity, public reform and domestic life, and inherited status and earned character.