
Walk with Maggie and read her story to find out if she gets some answers to these questions. The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot) George Eliot.

What do people mean when they say she is too intelligent? When can she go to school like her brother? Why is a girl’s hair so important? As she gets older her questions change but her curiosity remains just as strong. Like all of Eliots best work, The Mill on the Floss (1860), is based in large part on her own life and her relationship with her brother. The Mill on the Floss Great Illustrated Classics by George Eliot and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Then she could deal with the heavy weight that had fallen on her young heart’. I also was impressed with the character development. I could see the mill and river when she described them. I was impressed with the the imagery that Eliot was able to create with words. When Tom gets home for the summer, he learns that his younger. Tulliver, owner of the mill and its farm, has decided to send his son, Tom, away to school so that he can become something more than a miller and farmer.


‘She was looking for a key to understand. This story, written in 1860, by George Eliot is a story of two siblings, Tom and Maggie, who live with their mother and father at the mill on the River Floss. The Mill on the Floss opens with the unnamed narrator dreaming of Dorlcote Mill as she or he knew it years ago.
