The mill on the Floss / George Eliot ; with an introduction by Rosemary Ashton

Eliot, George

ISBN 10: 1857151127 / ISBN 13: 9781857151121

Published by London : D. Campbell, 1992

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xxxvii, 597 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects: Eliot, George 1819-1880. The Mill on the Floss; 1800-1899; Siblings ; Fiction; Manners and customs; Water mills ; Fiction; Young women Fiction; English literature 19th century. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The mill on the Floss / George Eliot ; with an introduction by Rosemary Ashton
• Publisher: London : D. Campbell
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857151127
• ISBN 13: 9781857151121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

About this title

Synopsis

From the author of MIDDLEMARCH and SILAS MARNER, a story of frustrated intelligence and longing, featuring the intelligent Maggie, who yearns to be loved, and her brother Tom, who is forced to study. When Maggie is cast out by Tom, she is ostracized by society, and must face the consequences of renunciation.

About the Author

George Eliot was born in Nuneaton on 22nd November 1819. Baptized Mary Anne Evans, Eliot chose to write using a male pen name. She was sent away to school but returned when her mother died in 1836.She later moved to Coventry with her father.After her father's death she became the Assistant Editor of the Westminster Review in 1851. She also met George Henry Lewes this year and they became partners for the rest of his life. Lewes was already married, although he and his wife both considered their relationship to be an open one, but he and Eliot set up home together, much to the dismay of polite London society.

In 1857 Eliot published Amos Barton in Blackwood's Magazine and in 1859 her novel Adam Bede was published to great acclaim.Her first attempt to write Middlemarch, her most famous novel, ended in failure. Abandoning it, she began a short novella entitled Miss Brooke which was eventually integrated into the final version of Middlemarch. The novel was published serially in eight parts in 1871. Lewes died in 1878 and Eliot married again in 1880. Her husband, John Walter Cross was an American who was twenty years her junior. George Eliot died on 22nd December 1880 at 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea and is buried in Highgate Cemetery next to Lewes.