The Mill on The Floss

George Eliot's The Mill on the floss (1860) has been widely read and remains one of her most powerful and best loved worked. In Maggie Tolliver, Eliot has embodied the aspirations of a passionate and sensitive nature at odds with a narrow, oppressive world. The provincial life of mid-Victorian England has been rendered in minute and realistic detail, bringing out its imperfections with a touch of sympathy,