The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot Reviews

This is the first George Eliot book that I've read and the only reason I even bothered to pick it up was because it was in the Classics section of our library. You find all sorts of hidden gems in their and this was no acception. George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Anne, who took on the use of a male name like a lot female authors did ...  Read the complete review

I remember once reading a comment written by George Eliot, in which she said that she always hoped for books in which the less pretty, dark haired girl triumphed rather than the elfin blondes. The Mill on The Floss is the tale of the dark girl triumphant - for the man prefers her to her pretty blond cousin. It is also a tale of homour and courage ...  Read the complete review

As one of my set texts for a degree unit in Victorian Literature, I was meant to read The Mill On The Floss. I like to keep up with my reading and I like to do well with my work. I didn't enjoy the novel at all, although I had enjoyed previous Victorain Literature I had read. It's very much about the oppression of Maggie as a ...  Read the complete review

The Mill on the Floss is a great read by George Eliot. Written in the nineteenth century, it nevertheless has many useful parallels to twenty-first century life. Basically it is a novel about a girl called Maggie, who, impulsive even as a child, elopes with her cousin's fiance. The story is based very much around Maggie's ...  Read the complete review