Notes on Eliot's " Mill on the Floss"

By William Holland

Subjects: Roman familial, Siblings, Frères et sœurs, Eliot, george, 1819-1880, Domestic fiction, Nonfiction, General, Mœurs et coutumes, Manners and customs, Romans, nouvelles, FICTION, Literary Criticism, Fiction, Social life and customs, Brothers and sisters, Mill on the Floss (Eliot, George), Literature, history and criticism

Description: In this 19th-century novel, Maggie Tulliver breaks off her romance with the man she loves, after she discovers that it was he who ruined her family's small mill business. She runs off with her cousin's fiance, reconsiders, repents, and returns. But it is too late.