The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot · 1860 CE · Novel · English · Victorian

Maggie Tulliver reads everything within reach and adores a brother who withholds approval on principle, while their father ruins himself in a lawsuit over the water rights to his mill. Grown up and poor, she forms an attachment the neighbourhood will not forgive, and Tom's pardon is the one thing she has never managed to earn. The most autobiographical of Eliot's books, and its close has divided readers since the week it appeared.

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