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  1. The Mill on the Floss. The novel spans a period of 10 to 15 years and details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings growing up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss at its junction with the more minor River Ripple near the village of St. Ogg's in Lincolnshire, England. Both the river and the village are fictional.

  2. 13 de jan. de 2003 · And the mill with its booming; the great chestnut-tree under which they played at houses; their own little river, the Ripple, where the banks seemed like home, and Tom was always seeing the water-rats, while Maggie gathered the purple plumy tops of the reeds, which she forgot and dropped afterward; above all, the great Floss, along which they wandered with a sense of travel, to see the rushing ...

  3. 9 de mar. de 2007 · The Mill on the Floss. 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 ...

  4. The Mill on the Floss, published in 1860, is a novel by George Eliot that follows the Tulliver siblings, Maggie and Tom, through their tumultuous lives in rural England. The novel explores themes of gender and class, as well as the tension between individual desires and societal expectations. Eliot drew on her own experiences growing up in ...

  5. The Mill on the Floss, novel by George Eliot, published in three volumes in 1860. It sympathetically portrays the vain efforts of Maggie Tulliver to adapt to her provincial world. The tragedy of her plight is underlined by the actions of her brother Tom, whose sense of family honour leads him to forbid her to associate with the one friend who appreciates her intelligence and imagination.

  6. 5 de dez. de 2023 · Plot and Storyline. “The Mill on the Floss” is a novel written by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Set in the early 19th century in the fictional town of St. Ogg’s, the story revolves around the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings who grow up near the river Floss. The novel explores themes of family, love, societal ...

  7. 5 de mai. de 2013 · The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the fictional river Floss near the fictional village of St. Oggs, evidently in the 1820's, after the Napoleonic Wars but prior to the first Reform Bill (1832). The novel spans a period of 10-15 years, from Tom and Maggie's childhood up until their deaths ...