7/3/2023 0 Comments Mill on the floss gutenberg![]() Maggie Tulliver holds the central role in the book, as both her relationship with her older brother Tom, and her romantic relationships with Philip Wakem, a hunchbacked, but sensitive and intellectual, friend, and with Stephen Guest, a vivacious young socialite in St. The book is fictional autobiography in part, reflecting the disgrace that George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) herself had while in a lengthy relationship with a married man, George Henry Lewes. ![]() The novel spans a period of 10-15 years, from Tom and Maggie’s childhood up until their deaths in a flood on the Floss. Oggs, evidently in the 1820’s, after the Napoleonic Wars but prior to the first Reform Bill (1832). ![]() The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. LibriVox recording of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot ![]()
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