![]() ![]() ![]() The Tullivers were, up until this point, a fairly respectable family: Mr. Tulliver, loses it all when he loses a lawsuit of his own devising. That awful reversal of fortune that drives the plot comes in the form of a literal reversal of fortune: the family patriarch, old Mr. Money plays a hugely important role in a lot of Victorian fiction, and The Mill on the Floss is no exception. She captures those intimate but often uncomfortable truths about family ties about love and courtship and marriage and, as always in nineteenth-century England, about class and status and money. With a keen wit and a deft pen, Eliot manages to lie bare the substance of rural English life in a way that allows her to comment on issues that matter to all of us. It has been over two years since I read Middlemarch, a novel that propelled George Eliot to near the top of my list of favourite authors. ![]() The below review still stands, but you might want to check out my new thoughts too! OK, that’s it. ![]()
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