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The Mill on the Floss is one of the great works of British literature. It really is perhaps the most autobiographical of all Eliot's novels. The partnership between its heroine, Maggie Tulliver, and her brother, Tom, carefully resembles that of George Eliot and her own brother, Isaac. The subject of sibling love was evidently a deeply poignant one for George Eliot - she also composed a series of beautiful and evocative sonnets entitled 'Sibling and Sister'. Maggie's emotions as she nurses her dying dad also echo those described by George Eliot in a letter when she was at the same situation. And there is something in the essential character and personality of Maggie that reminds us of her creator, of what we know of her from the life she led and the decisions she made. Like its predecessors, Views of Clerical Life and Adam Bede, this is a domestic story. And, like its predecessors, the reserve draws carefully on people and places in Eliot's native Warwickshire. Although she performed travel to Lincolnshire, where in fact the story is defined, to identify appropriate rivers for the apocalyptic flood, Dorlcote Mill carefully resembles Arbury Mill, where in fact the author played out as a child. It really is essentially a tale of family reduction, tragedy and the utter cruelty of destiny. Like a lot of George Eliot's heroines, Maggie Tulliver's cleverness and psychological capacity are her undoing; they create in her an hunger for higher things than the interpersonal restrictions of your day tended to offer women - a style which characterises much of George Eliot's work.

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