<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/westmont-news/talk-examines-marriage-middlemarch.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>03/16/2016</pubDate><title>Talk Examines Marriage, ‘Middlemarch’</title><excerpt>Cheri Larsen Hoeckley, professor of English at Westmont, examines the expectation of marriage through George Eliot’s novel “Middlemarch” in a lecture, “Marriage Law Reform, Singleness, and Middlemarch” on Tuesday, March 29, at 7 p.m. in Hieronymus Lounge at Westmont’s Kerrwood Hall. The Gender Studies Lecture is free and open to the public.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
            <img src="/_migrated-binaries/sites/default/files/blogs-legacy/2016/03/Larsen-Hoeckley-Cheri_15-505x758.jpg" alt="Dr. Cheri Larsen Hoeckley"/>
        </image><caption>Dr. Cheri Larsen Hoeckley</caption><description>1 Column Content Background Color White Heading...</description></item>