The Mill on the Floss Summary
George Eliot

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,... Read more

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Biography EssayThe 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 biog... Read more

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... Read more

George Eliot wrote nearly all of her nonfiction prose during two widely separated periods in her life. As Marian Evans, in her mid thirties, she produced more than sixty critical essays that appeared ... Read more

In the following essay, Paget discusses preparations for a television adaptation of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, noting particularly issues relating to the development of the script, t... Read more

Here, Ermarth explores the influence of restrictive societal norms on the character of Maggie Tulliver. George Eliot makes it clear in The Mill on the Floss that the social norms of St. Oggs exert ... Read more

In this essay, Freeman contends that the omniscient narration of The Mill on the Floss renders the novel's ending appropriate. "By God she is a wonderful woman."—John B... Read more

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." In both Adam Bede ... Read more

In the following letter written to Eliot, her publisher praises the manuscript of The Mill on the Floss. My Dear Madam Your second last chapter arrived safely today and will go out in proof to y... Read more

In the following excerpt, Thale analyzes The Mill on the Floss as a sociological study. The Mill on the Floss has been most often remembered as the idyl of Tom and Maggie Tulliver's early ye... Read more

In the following essay, Paris examines the psychology of the character of Maggie Tulliver using Karen Horney's theories of neurosis. I In The Great Tradition [1950] F. R. Leavis argues that ... Read more

In this excerpt, Knoepflmacher compares Eliot's The Mill on the Floss to George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, noting that these novels do not effectively negotiate the split ... Read more

In the following essay, Carlisle analyzes the autobiographical structural patterns, action, and characterization of George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss. When in the fifth book of The ... Read more

Characterization of a human being has always two sides: the first one concerns one´s appearance, the other deals with one´s inner qualities. However, there is a slight difference in describi... Read more