Rereading: George Eliot's Mill on the Floss | Books | The Guardian Rereading Rereading: George Eliot's Mill on the Floss On the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Mill on the Floss, Kathryn Hughes celebrates George Eliot's most deeply autobiographical novel Tom and Maggie overwhelmed by the flood Photograph: Rischgitz/Getty Images Friday 26 March 2010 20.05 EDT First published on Friday 26 March 2010 20.05 EDT Share on Messenger Close On 5 March 1860, the scientist and journalist GH Lewes reported to the publisher John Blackwood that "Mrs Lewes is getting her eyes redder and swollener every morning as she lives through her tragic story. But there is such a strain of poetry to relieve the tragedy that the more she cries, and the readers cry, the better say I." "Mrs Lewes" was, of course, George Eliot , and "the tragic story" on which she was working so damply was The Mill on the Floss, published by Blackwood 150 years ago next week.

What was making Eliot cry was having to write the last few pages of her novel in which the heroine Maggie Tulliver and her estranged brother Tom drown in the swollen River Floss, locked together "in an embrace never to be parted". More than mere melodrama, the watery hug represented a wishful reworking of Eliot's fractured relationship with her own adored brother, with whom she had grown up on the Warwickshire family farm in the 1820s. Ever since she had written to Isaac Evans three years before to explain that she was now cohabiting in London with the married Lewes – "Mrs Lewes" was a term of social convenience, her legal name remained Mary Ann Evans – the rigidly respectable Isaac had refused to have anything to do with her. Even more hurtfully, he had instructed their sister to break off contact too. This silence was to stretch bleakly over the coming quarter of a century. The brother and sister who, like Tom and Maggie, had once "roamed the daisied fields together" in loving childhood, would never meet again. Unusually for such an intensely autobiographical novel, The Mill on the Floss was not Eliot's first work of fiction, but her third.

Shortly before it came out she explained to a friend that my "mind works with most freedom and the keenest sense of poetry in my remotest past", and her first two novels had indeed truffled her own prehistory. Scenes of Clerical Life (1858) was drawn from stories circulating around her childhood community about a series of mild scandals that had taken place several decades earlier. Adam Bede (1859) was based on the young adulthood of her father, her uncle and her uncle's wife. It was as if Eliot had been working through what she called the "many strata" of collective memory before she was ready, finally, to confront her own past. Literary theorists tend not to approve of reading novels as if they were fictionalised autobiography. Still, it is a stern critic who would deny readers the pleasure of spotting which parts of her own childhood George Eliot transferred to Tom and Maggie. The dynamics and personalities of the Tulliver family are remarkably similar to what we know of the Evanses.

Mr Tulliver, the hot-headed miller, is described as finding "the relation between spoken and written language, briefly known as spelling, one of the most puzzling things in this puzzling world", and you only have to glance at the diaries of Eliot's father, Robert Evans, to realise that he too was an uncertain penman. Evans, like Tulliver, was a fond father, who doted on "his little wench", born when he was already middle aged. And while he was far too astute to follow Tulliver's example of mounting ruinous law suits, Evans often found himself called into court to give expert witness on matters of land management. Then there is Tom Tulliver, whose rigid respectability and lack of capacity for original thought makes him a ringer for Isaac. Some of the best scenes in the book show Tom struggling over schoolboy Latin while the younger Maggie races ahead, exhibiting a cleverness that upsets the gender expectations of her highly conventional family. Isaac, like Tom, grew up to be a practical man of business.

Mary Ann, by contrast, followed Maggie into a self-punishing adolescence marked by an intense longing for the kind of intellectual and artistic life not generally available to girls in the muddy backwaters of late-Hanoverian England. But it is the Dodson aunts who are the real stars of The Mill on the Floss. This bustling trio of self-regarding matrons is one of the great comic creations of 19th-century fiction, as good as anything Dickens ever did. The Dodsons are Mrs Tulliver's married sisters, and regularly descend on the mill in a disapproving chorus, ready to dispense home truths beginning with, "It's for your own good I say this." Devoid of culture or curiosity about lives other than their own, the Dodsons nonetheless know themselves to be experts in everything that really matters, including "obedience to parents, faithfulness to kindred, industry, rigid honesty, thrift, the thorough scouring of wooden and copper utensils". Behind Eliot's comedy there is, as ever, a more serious intent. As a careful reader of all the new scientific theories, including Darwin's, Eliot wants to show us the Dodsons in their larger historical context.

Thirty years ago, she explains, this is how rich Protestant peasants lived in middle England. Fussing over butter-making and swollen ankles, household linen and fashionable bonnets may strike her readers as tiresome and vulgar, but it is important to realise that this way of being represents a particular moment in human development. Now that moment has passed, and, for all their ant-like vitality, the Dodsons and their ilk are as dead as dodos. The Dodson aunts derive much of their grotesque energy from Eliot's close observations of her own mother's sisters, the Pearsons. This formidable set of women lived in a series of prosperous farmhouses at several miles' distance from the Evanses' own home. Robert Evans's diaries for the early 1830s record a constant round of comings and goings, with aunts and uncles descending periodically just as they do in The Mill on the Floss. In return little Mary Ann is sent on overnight visits, especially to her Aunt Garner, the model for Aunt Deane.

Eliot tells us that one of the main planks of Dodson respectability is the desire "to leave an unimpeachable will", so it is nice to report that the real-life model for the stuffiest of all the Dodson aunts, Aunt Glegg, did exactly that. In 1844 wealthy widow Mary Everard departed the Warwickshire earth, leaving much of her household furniture to be divided between her three nieces: Mary Ann Evans, Mary Ann's elder sister Chrissy (the model for Mr Tulliver's sister Gritty) and their cousin Bessy Garner (possibly the original for the angelic cousin Lucy, whom jealous Maggie pushes into the mud). The will and its codicil comprise a remarkable inventory of Mrs Everard's household goods, written with an attention to detail that would have delighted her fictional counterpart. While Chrissy gets her aunt's best bed, and Bessy gets a wardrobe, Mary Ann gets 12 teaspoons, four saltspoons marked MP (for Mary Pearson) and the clock in the kitchen.

It is, though, Maggie Tulliver who towers over The Mill on the Floss, one of those great literary heroines whom bookish girls grow up wanting to be. Just like Anne of Green Gables or even Jane Eyre, Maggie captures exactly the dilemma of being the clever girl of the family, the ugly duckling, the misplaced foundling who longs to be recognised for the genius she secretly knows herself to be. (Maggie fantasises about writing to Sir Walter Scott, who will naturally recognise her specialness). Several of the most celebrated incidents in Maggie's life are said to be taken straight from Mary Anne's own emotionally jagged childhood – the hacking off of her unruly hair with the scissors, the running away to join the Gypsies, the mortification of being displaced in her brother's affections by a new pony. The central crisis of the novel is a reworking of the drama that defined Eliot's own adult life. Towards the end of the book, the adult Maggie goes on an ill-advised boat trip with Stephen Guest, her cousin Lucy's beau. "Nothing happens", as we might say today, apart from Stephen begging Maggie to elope with him by heading to Scotland for a quick marriage.

Maggie realises just in time that what she is doing is wrong and returns home. However, her absence has caused a storm of gossip and "the world's wife" is busy painting the blackest picture of what really went on during those missing hours. Respectable women turn away from Maggie in the street, and coarse men laugh knowingly. Tom, who is now head of the family, refuses to let his disgraced sister return to the mill, declaring savagely: "I wash my hands of you for ever." Here, surely, is a fictional transmutation of Eliot's own "elopement" with Lewes in 1854. That, too, had started with a boat trip – to Germany, where the middle-aged couple spent the first few months of their life together. While Maggie commits no actual sin – she has not slept with Stephen – Eliot seems to be making the provocative case that neither has she. Lewes may technically still have been a married man, but that was because his complicated legal situation made divorce impossible. As far as Eliot was concerned, she and Lewes, whom she always referred to as "my husband", had a sacred bond which was more binding than any piece of paper.

The "world's wife", though, saw things very differently. On returning to Britain in the spring of 1855, Eliot found herself the centre of a storm of vicious finger-pointing. As a "fallen woman" she was not welcome in any respectable home, and several of her women friends were forbidden by their fathers from calling on her. Inveterate gossips such as Elizabeth Gaskell and Harriet Martineau made things even murkier by adding embellishments, including a fictitious illegitimate baby, to this already most juicy of literary scandals. That Eliot was often writing about herself when she wrote about Maggie is betrayed by the uneven shape of The Mill on the Floss. The first two sections are leisurely and detailed, studded with examples of the comical Dodsons and the minute plotting of the changing relationship between the young Tullivers. It is as if Eliot is unable to achieve the critical distance required to move her story briskly forward, but instead lingers lovingly over her memories of those early years with Isaac. And so the ending, when it comes, is rushed and breathless.

A terrible tidal flood has marooned Tom in the mill and, in a reversal of the usual rescue plot, Maggie rows out from the town to save her elder brother. On the way back a piece of flotsam breaks off and heads towards their small boat. "'It is coming, Maggie!' Tom said, in a deep, hoarse voice, loosing the oars, and clasping her." The boat sinks, taking Tom and Maggie down in that final embrace. In real life this reunion of brother and sister never took place. Instead, Isaac and Mary Ann Evans spent their adult lives apart, he on the Warwickshire family farm, she as an increasingly successful and fêted author in London. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot · OverDrive: eBooks, audiobooks and videos for libraries Classic Literature Fiction In The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot re-creates her own childhood through the story of the wild, gifted Maggie Tulliver and her spoiled, selfish brother. Though tragic in its outcome, this tenderly comic novel combines vivid vignettes of family life with a magnificent portrait of the heroine and an acute critique of Victorian sexual politics.

Eliot had no peer when it came to finding the drama at the heart of normal lives lived in tandem with the gigantic rhythms of nature itself, and in The Mill on the Floss she shows us once again how thoroughly the art of fiction can satisfy our deepest mental and emotional cravings. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Adobe EPUB eBook 2.2 MB George Eliot (Author) Margot Livesey, a native of Scotland, is the author of Eva Moves the Furniture, The Missing World, and Criminals. She lives in Massachusetts and London. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot · OverDrive: eBooks, audiobooks and videos for libraries Fiction Literature First published in 1860, The Mill on the Floss is a classic novel of development that follows the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they grow to adulthood in the small rural village of St. Ogg's, England. The Mill on the Floss, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom as they grow from children to young adults in the small rural town of St. Ogg's, England.

Intelligent and passionate, Maggie yearns to develop her mind and break free of the constraints of her provincial village. Though she loves her brother above anyone else, Tom's rigid, pragmatic personality often conflicts with Maggie's headstrong nature, with increasingly tragic consequences. A classic novel of development, The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot's most autobiographical work. Through the characters of Tom and Maggie, Eliot examines themes of gender, education, and personality formation, and her portrayal of the town of St. Ogg's is both a brilliant depiction of provincial narrow-mindedness and constraining social norms and an intelligent commentary on the changes to rural life brought about by the forces of industrialization. The Mill on the Floss is an enduring portrait of love, family, and individuals striving to create their own destinies, one whose words and characters resonate as vividly today as they did for Eliot's first readers. modern tragedy of the novel the mill on the floss modern tragedy of the novel the mill on the floss Online Service The Evolution Of Nineteenth-Century Tragic ... - Purdue e-Pubs Chapter V studies George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss as a tragic novel, its heroine, ...

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The Mill on the Floss : George Eliot : 9781551114675 The Mill on the Floss Paperback By (author) George Eliot , Edited by Oliver Lovesey Share Add to basket Add to wishlist Description This classic novel, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver. Intelligent and headstrong but trapped by the conventions of family tradition and rural life, Maggie is one of the great heroines of Victorian literature. Along with Maggie's story, the novel also tells a companion tale of the social pressures that restrict the vision of her beloved brother Tom. George Eliot's most autobiographical novel, The Mill on the Floss remains one of her most popular and influential works. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and extensive contextualizing notes as well as a broad range of appendices drawn from contemporary documents dealing with issues such as 19th-century views of disability, education, and the Woman Question.

show more Product details 140 x 212 x 28mm | 521.63g Publication date Classics Review quote "This edition of George Eliot's most passionate novel about a woman's life is accompanied by a selection of contemporary materials that demonstrate the surprisingly radical context of the author's views at this point in her career. Oliver Lovesey has selected brief, eminently readable portions from Eliot's own translations, essays, and reviews that will educate the reader in the 'real' George Eliot--a woman of amazing education herself, and of profoundly original thought that transcended the conventions of her time. The edition also includes the full text of the author's poem, 'Brother and Sister, ' a parallel narrative of Eliot's childhood that is crucial to the reader's understanding of the novel, as well as other very useful selections from historical documents and contemporary reviews of the novel." -- Mary Wilson Carpenter, Queen's University "This edition is a splendid presentation of George Eliot's most autobiographical novel.

The long and generous introduction dispels some of the myths about the author's life, traces subtle relations between the novel and the moral complexities Eliot faced in Victorian society, places the novel in the context of her life's work, and offers valuable analyses of the novel's style and structure. Footnotes throughout the text helpfully explain dialect words, obsolete expressions and literary allusions. Excerpts from George Eliot's critical writings, added as appendices, give insight into some of the ideas about fiction, religion, and the place of women in society that entered into the writing of The Mill on the Floss." -- Jacob Korg, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington show more Back cover copy This classic novel, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver. Intelligent and headstrong but trapped by the conventions of family tradition and rural life, Maggie is one of the great heroines of Victorian literature. Along with Maggie's story, the novel also tells a companion tale of the social pressures that restrict the vision of her beloved brother Tom. George Eliot's most autobiographical novel, The Mill on the Floss remains one of her most popular and influential works.

This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and extensive contextualizing notes as well as a broad range of appendices drawn from contemporary documents dealing with issues such as 19th-century views of disability, education, and the Woman Question. show more About George Eliot Oliver Lovesey is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan. He is the author of The Clerical Character in George Eliot's Fiction (ELS, 1991) and Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Twayne, 2000). show more Follow us The Mill on the Floss (Konemann Classics): Amazon.co.uk: George Eliot: 9783895084614: Books The Mill on the Floss (Konemann Classics) Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App.

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The Mill On The Floss (1860), a story of the growth of the moral imagination in its young, sensitive heroine, Maggie Tulliver, restores to conditions of human existence that we can all recognize their actual originality and strangeness, and reveals once again how thoroughly, in the hands of a master like George Eliot, the art of fiction can satisfy our deepest mental and emotional cravings. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. The Mill on the Floss - Broadview Press The Mill on the Floss Publication Date: March 9, 2007 ISBN: 9781551114675 / 1551114674 594 pages; 5½" x 8½" Print $15.95 Availability: Worldwide The Mill on the Floss Publication Date: March 9, 2007 ISBN: 9781551114675 / 1551114674 Authors/Editors This classic novel, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver.

Intelligent and headstrong but trapped by the conventions of family tradition and rural life, Maggie is one of the great heroines of Victorian literature. Along with Maggie’s story, the novel also tells a companion tale of the social pressures that restrict the vision of her beloved brother Tom. George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel, The Mill on the Floss remains one of her most popular and influential works. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and extensive contextualizing notes as well as a broad range of appendices drawn from contemporary documents dealing with issues such as 19th-century views of disability, education, and the Woman Question.

Download The Mill on the Floss Audiobook | George Eliot | Wanda McCaddon Audiobooks > Fiction > General Fiction > The Mill on the Floss Download The Mill on the Floss Audiobook 0.00 (0 ratings) (rate this audio book) Author: George Eliot Narrator: Wanda McCaddon Publisher: Tantor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Delivery: Instant Download Audio Length: 19 hours Regular Price: $25.99 Add to Cart — or — Publisher Description The Mill on the Floss, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom as they grow from children to young adults in the small rural town of St. Ogg’s, England. Intelligent and passionate, Maggie yearns to develop her mind and break free of the constraints of her provincial village. Though she loves her brother above anyone else, Tom’s rigid, pragmatic personality often conflicts with Maggie’s headstrong nature, with increasingly tragic consequences. A classic novel of development, The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s most autobiographical work.

Through the characters of Tom and Maggie, Eliot examines themes of gender, education, and personality formation, and her portrayal of the town of St. Ogg’s is both a brilliant depiction of provincial narrow-mindedness and constraining social norms and an intelligent commentary on the changes to rural life brought about by the forces of industrialization. The Mill on the Floss is an enduring portrait of love, family, and individuals striving to create their own destinies, one whose words and characters resonate as vividly today as they did for Eliot’s first readers. Download and start listening now! bexw Listener Opinions by Jenny Aldrin | 2/20/2014 " Maggie Tulliver is a heroine so close to my heart. I totally understand her way of thinking. Seemingly tuff on d outside so she can pretend she doesn't bruise easily. Seemingly uncaring of convention but unwilling to step outside any boundary that wud hurt people she cares 4 or feels obligated to. Her relationship with her taciturn brother is also a reflection of mine. A wonderful book with a worthy heroine! " by Jenny | 2/19/2014 " Long. So long.

Beautifully written, especially the compelling opening description. And wonderfully narrated by Nadia May in the audio version. But it just goes on and on, with whole chapters I didn't care about. And then the ending... Ugh. " by Keri Daskam | 2/17/2014 " A beautiful book about grace. Strongly influenced by Thomas a Kempis. " by Mike | 2/14/2014 " Review to come later, in the interest of not spoiling the text or poisoning the well for friends currently reading it. " " Read in 6th Form together with Adam Bede also by George Elliot. " Rachel (Sfogs) | 2/10/2014 " Really good story if a bit sad! Though took me ages to read thanks to the size of the book + uni work overload!

" Mashi | 2/4/2014 " The mill on the Floss reminds my good old days of teaching English.I worked on it with my students several times.The hunch back who loves Maggie Tulliver.Her conflict against her family due to her thoughts & the men whom she loved.At the beginning of the novel,sth irritated me alot:the death of rabitts because of being neglected. " Christina Girardi | 2/1/2014 " Ending was completely unexpected but necessary for the time it was written. Characters less developed than Middlemarch. " DRGAustin | 1/31/2014 " Preferred Eliot's book Middlemarch. Disappointing conclusion. " Elaine | 1/28/2014 " There are tons of geology metaphors. There is also a sister/brother relationship that is a little too close. It's a great book for increasing one's vocabulary and really stretching the brain. " Mignon Ariel King | 1/27/2014 " Absolutely one of the best 19th-century British multiplot novels. One of my favorites.

If you like Jo from Little Women and loved Wuthering Heights, read it and sigh. " Paul | 1/25/2014 " Obviously a classic. I just wanted to give them all a good shake and tell them to live life and stop agonising " Erica | 1/21/2014 " It's true - this book really picks up around page 500. Oy vay. " Henley Bookclub | 1/20/2014 " I love me some george eliot, but WHOA didactic and sentimentalist. Not so much. " Jess | 12/16/2013 " This book reminded me of Passing by Nella Larsen--an interesting, perfectly reasonable female character doomed by the narrative conventions and cultural expectations of the author's time and place. " Jesus | 12/12/2013 " Can you give less than one star? " Amma | 12/9/2013 " One of my favourite books of all times, I read this at a very young age and it was the first book which made me cry!

" Mike | 12/9/2013 " Review to come later, in the interest of not spoiling the text or poisoning the well for friends currently reading it. " Susan Howson | 11/28/2013 " George Eliot is my hero. " Angie | 11/27/2013 " I feel as though I could read this book only for the rest of my life and still be engrossed in it until the end. " Susan | 11/27/2013 " One of my all-time favorites ... " Pamela | 11/25/2013 " Frustrating and depressing story; I found it tedious reading. " Joanne | 10/22/2013 " A little slowly paced, but a good book for a cold winter day, pot of tea and scones. " Rosie | 9/24/2013 " I watched the movie for this book last year and just found out it had a book. And it was so much better! :D " Faith Bradham | 9/10/2013 " Depressing.

:( But very good writing. " Gyda | 7/1/2013 " Ug. Hated the first 200 pages, and the last 2 pages. Loved the middle (very Jane Austen). " Bethany | 5/12/2013 " My poor brain will never recover from the tedious in this one " Gillian | 4/1/2013 " I simply love George Elliots writing. She draws a picture of life in an age where social lives were changing, where women were daring to be counted by whatever means it took. " Marie | 2/2/2013 " Is it giving the plot away to declare that practically everyone in this story ends up miserable or dead? I enjoyed the tale well enough in the telling, but my, what a downer of an ending. " Sdprince | 1/4/2013 " Silas Marner and Middlemarch are terrific. The Mill on the Floss is very good, but depressing as hell. Adam Bede is above-average. " Suzanne | 1/3/2013 " Beautifully written - a classic you must read!

" ChloÃ© | 10/28/2012 " A throughly wonderful book, damn near broke my heart. " Az-mom | 10/3/2012 " An absolutely brilliant piece of literature. Mill on the floss is a timeless treasure. George elliot's best works. " Rabia Riaz | 8/7/2012 " Very touching story with an unexpected conclusion! " Bob | 3/17/2012 " The ending is very surprising. I looked at some reviews of this in the edition I read and they noted many thought the same thing. It was an interesting read and the ending, while surprising, makes lots of sense. " DRGAustin | 12/17/2011 " Preferred Eliot's book Middlemarch. Disappointing conclusion. " Mark Alden | 12/2/2011 " All in all, a very good nineteenth century novel. Though a bit sluggish in the beginning, it really grows on you as the story moves along and the characters develop and the plot thickens. This is the first George Eliot novel I've read.

Not likely to be the last. " Natima | 10/11/2011 " Not usually a fan of British literature--but this is growing on me. " Tina | 9/16/2010 " This was the novel that started my love affair with classic literature " Ruth E. R. | 8/28/2010 " So good I read it in two weeks during the college semester while working and serving at church! " Keri | 6/5/2010 " A difficult, classic read, that I wanted to enjoy more than I did. The writing is wonderful, the story depressing for me...just not what I was in the mood for at the time. " Trish | 4/1/2009 " So good, but also so frustrating!! " Slone | 2/7/2009 " Filled with superfluous prose and very depressing. " Laura Lou | 1/8/2009 " George Eliot rules the fascinating and selective world between Victorian fantasy and true modernism, and Middlemarch is one shining example of her expertise.

Not just a good reads these are, but some of the very best. " Sdprince | 11/14/2008 " Silas Marner and Middlemarch are terrific. The Mill on the Floss is very good, but depressing as hell. Adam Bede is above-average. " Criticisms and Interpretations. V. By W. D. Howells. Eliot, George. 1917. The Mill on the Floss. Vol. IX. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction George Eliot. (18191880). The Mill on the Floss. The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. 1917. V. By W. D. Howells IT is by her nature, complex, passionate, sensuous, by her sex, intellectualized and spiritualized, that Maggie Tulliver is most important to the reader. In her relations to her brother, which are apparently the chief interest of the book, she is interestingly and novelly studied; but these, though they involve the catastrophe, do not involve the climax.

That is reached, as it seems to me, not when she and Tom are drowned together in the flood of the Floss, but when her reason and her conscience are provisionally overborne by her love for Stephen Guest, and she floats with him down a tide and out upon a sea more perilous than any inundation, and saves herself only by a powerful impulse of her will, which is almost a convulsion. The fruition of her love would have been a double treason, treason to her cousin Lucy, who was Guests betrothed, and treason to Philip Wakem, to whom she was herself pledged; and the sense of this blackened it with guilt, and turned it to despair, even while she yielded and yielded to the love of being loved. Never has an unhappy passion been more faithfully studied in a character with strength enough finally to forbid it; or more subtly felt from that first moment when Maggie begins to rejoice in her beauty because of her love for the man who loves it, till that last moment when she refuses to marry him, and goes back to suffer shame rather than to merit shame.

Every step of the way is accurately and firmly traced up to that passage where Stephen Guest comes to ask her to row with him on the river, and from which there seems no retreat. 1 It does not seem to me that the true logic of the late is Maggies death with Tom Tulliver, or Stephens marriage with Lucy. It is a forced touch where the husband and wife stand together beside the grave of the brother and sister; but in the novels, the best of the novels, fifty years ago, they forced their touches rather more than they do now. To kill people or to marry them is to beg the question; but into some corner the novelist is commonly driven who deals with a problem. It is only life that can deal masterfully with problems, and life does not solve them by referring them to another life or by stifling them with happiness. How life would have solved the problem of Maggie Tulliver I am not quite prepared to say; but I have my revolt against George Eliots solution.

All the more I must own that the heroines character, from the sort of undisciplined, imaginative, fascinating little girl we see her at first, into the impassioned, bewildered, self-disciplined woman we see her at last, is masterly. Having given my opinion that her supreme expression is in her relation to her lover, I have my doubts, or at least my compunctions in behalf of her relation to her brother. Unquestionably the greatest pathos of the story appeals to us from her relation to her brother. The adoring dependence, the grieving indignation, the devotion, the revolt, the submission, and the reunion which make up her love for him is such a study of sisterly affection as I should not know where to match. The very conditions of her intellectual and emotional superiority involve a moral inferiority to the brute simplicity, the narrow integrity, the heroic truth of the more singly natured man. Maggie saw life more whole than Tom, but that part of it which he saw he discerned with a clearness denied to her large but cloudy vision.

It is a great and beautiful story, which one reads with a helpless wonder that such a book should ever be in any wise superseded, or should not constantly keep the attention at least of those fitted to feel its deep and lasting significance.From George Eliots Maggie Tulliver and Hetty Sorrel, in Heroines of Fiction (1901).

Question: In which classic novel is Maggie Tulliver the heroine?
Answer: MILL ON THE FLOSS