SOURCE: "Maggie Tulliver's Long Suicide," in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol. XIV, No. 4, Autumn, 1974, pp. 587-601.
Here, Ermarth explores the influence of restrictive societal norms on the character of Maggie Tulliver.
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