![]() Unfortunately, Maggie got the brains in the family, which makes her a bit rebellious. He has common sense and would make a fine miller, but he’s no scholar. He’s an upright young man, given to feeling morally superior to everyone else. To that end, he sends Tom off for private instruction. ![]() He wants his son, Tom, to get an education so that he can be a match for them. He’s a rather narrow-minded man who feels everyone is out to cheat him and so has had multiple run-ins with other people’s lawyers. ![]() The family is of respectable means, but not as well-off as her father likes others to think. This is the story of an ordinary woman, Maggie Tulliver, the daughter of a miller, in a tiny English village on the river Floss. It shouldn’t have taken me this long to get to The Mill on the Floss. Previously for a classics challenge (I can’t believe it was more than 3 years ago) I read Eliot’s Middlemarch and loved it. ![]() My classic-written-by-a-female-author choice was The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. I did it! I finished the Back-to-the-Classics Challenge! ![]()
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