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The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

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Project Gutenberg eBook
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The Mill on the Floss eBook
182,761 words, approx. 609 pages
The complete online text of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot.


Author Biography

Name: George Eliot
Variant Name: Mary Ann Evans
Birth Date: 1819
Death Date: 1880
Place of Birth: Warwickshire, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, novelist

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Biography of George Eliot
1331 words, approx. 4.4 pages
George Eliot was the pen name used by the English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), one of the most important writers of European fiction. Her masterpiece, Middlemarch, is not only a major social document but also one of the greatest novels in the his...
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Biography of George Eliot
14583 words, approx. 48.6 pages
The most learned and respected novelist of the late Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biography stitched together by her widower, John Walter Cross, left out t...
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Biography of George Eliot
14071 words, approx. 46.9 pages
The most learned and respected novelist of the later Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biography stitched together by her widower, John Walter Cross, left out...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Mill on the Floss Summary
5,581 words, approx. 19 pages
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (Marian Evans) The Mill on the Floss was the second novel Marian Evans published under the pseudonym George Eliot. Born in 1819 to a prosperous estate manager, Marian Evans spent her youth much as her heroine did,...
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The Mill on the Floss Information
1,071 words, approx. 4 pages
The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), first published in three volumes in 1860. This book is similar to "Wuthering Heights", a work by Emily...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
'Mill on the Floss' Runs Deep and Fresh
05/18/2001: 916 words, approx. 3 pages
Shared Experience Theatre Company's "Mill on the Floss," at the Kennedy Center, is a thrilling adaptation of George Eliot's 1860 novel -- a powerful, sweeping story, masterfully told. Shared Experience is renowned for its physical approach to theater, and the production sure has energy;...
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The Washington Post
`Floss': Gorgeous George
10/11/1997: 576 words, approx. 2 pages
Love has always been dangerous, though perhaps not for all the reasons it is now. There was once a time when romantic morality was solely a feminine province and a single misstep could bring ruin, and that time is brought to life by "The...
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The New York Observer
Darwinian Confusions, And Other Lesser Crimes
1/8/2006: 1,158 words, approx. 4 pages
This is a book that people will find cute and charming—or it’s a book they’ll find cloying and false and illiterate. Since it comes garlanded in endorsements from accomplished writers and a movie star, too (Lucinda Rosenfeld, Nell Freudenberger, Sam Lipsyte—and Claire Danes), I expect...
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The New York Observer
Darwinian Confusions, And Other Lesser Crimes
1/8/2006: 1,156 words, approx. 4 pages
This is a book that people will find cute and charming—or it’s a book they’ll find cloying and false and illiterate. Since it comes garlanded in endorsements from accomplished writers and a movie star, too (Lucinda Rosenfeld, Nell Freudenberger, Sam Lipsyte—and Claire Danes), I...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by David Carroll
14,656 words, approx. 49 pages
In this essay, Carroll examines the world-views of the Dodsons and Tullivers and their effect on Tom and Maggie's "search for an interpretative key to life."
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Critical Essay by Bernard J. Paris
11,315 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Paris examines the psychology of the character of Maggie Tulliver using Karen Horney's theories of neurosis.
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Critical Essay by Janice Carlisle
9,578 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Carlisle analyzes the autobiographical structural patterns, action, and characterization of George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 88%
Female Characters in British Literature of 19th Century
1,503 words, approx. 5 pages
Discusses the characterization of female characters in British literature of the 19th century based on the reading of Anne Brontë´s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and George Eliot´s The Mill on the Floss.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Account for George Eliots Decision to Give Maggie a Tragic Ending
1,373 words, approx. 5 pages
George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
Answers the question `Account for George Eliot's Decision to Give Maggie a tragic ending.'


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