description: George Eliot's masterpiece of love, rejection and reconciliation is the story of Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom as they grow up in the narrowly puritanical atmosphere of rural Victorian society. Too intelligent and imaginative for a woman of her times, Maggie's rebellious nature, and the thoughtlessness of the man she comes to love causes her to be ostracized by society and by the brother she loves so intensely, with tragic consequences. Passionate and deeply moving, The Mill on the Floss is one of the greatest novels of nineteenth century literature, drawing a remarkable picture of a world to which the author, as much as her heroine, could never conform. This perceptive study of provincial life is read by Cheryl Campbell who stars as Maggie Tulliver's mother in the outstanding television dramatization from the BBC.
language: English
title: The Mill on the Floss
titlecomplete: The Mill on the Floss
characters: Tom Tulliver, Maggie Tulliver
genres: Literature, Classics, Novels, Classic Literature, English Literature, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 54065
places: St. Ogg's
publisher: BBC Radio