The mill of the floss7/6/2023 ![]() Commenting on the lives of the Dodsons and the Tullivers the narrator claims that 'you could not live among such people', and that 'I share with you this sense of oppressive narrowness'. The novel explores the complex relationships of Victorian familial life as well as wider societal issues such as the position of women in the world. Equally memorable are the Aunts - the famous 'Dodson' sisters based on Mary Anne's own aunts, her mother's sisters, the Pearsons. The Tulliver family are at the heart of the novel. She and Lewes eventually found what they were looking for at Gainsborough on a tributary of the River Trent. Eliot needed to find an actual mill and tidal river capable of the disastrous flood at the end of the novel. ![]() 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'. As Lewes reported to their publisher Blackwood, 'Mrs Lewes is getting her eyes redder and swollener every morning as she lives through her tragic story. ![]() Eliot needed no model for the brother-sister relationship at the heart of the novel, the novel widely being seen as semi-autobiographical. ![]() The Mill on the Floss is based around George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, focusing on the struggles of the headstrong Maggie and her brother Tom Tulliver of Dorlecote Mill, St Oggs. ![]()
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