Next Section The Mill on the Floss Summary Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Cullina, Alice. The Tullivers are not meant to represent Eliot’s parents, but Tom Tulliver is very reminiscent of Eliot’s brother Isaac Evans, and the Dodson aunts are reminiscent of Eliot’s aunts, the Pearsons. Although the plot points do not explicitly mirror events from Eliot’s life, the character of Maggie Tulliver is the closest approximation of Eliot to appear in her fiction, and she faces many of the same struggles that Eliot did. The Mill on the Floss is Eliot’s most autobiographical novel. Many critics vastly preferred the first half of The Mill on the Floss, which focuses on Maggie and Tom Tulliver’s childhoods, to the second half - and especially the ending. It was not as uniformly praised as Adam Bede had been upon publication, but it was also a more ambitious work. The novel was eagerly anticipated, as Adam Bede had been very successful, and it ended up being well-received for the most part.
A compelling story of a young girls growth to adulthood, and the conflicts that arise from her growing independence. She began writing the novel in 1859 and it was first published in 1860, with a few subsequent revised editions. A new edition of one of Eliots best-loved novels whose central figure, Maggie Tulliver, is one of English literatures great female characters. The Mill on the Floss was George Eliot’s third book, after Scenes of Clerical Life (1858) and Adam Bede (1859). Book I - Boy And Girl Chapter I - Outside Dorlcote Mill A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace.
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