#The Mill on the Floss

[philosophybits]

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

[macrolit]

Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot

[thatscarletflycatcher]

The author of this article persuasively argues that George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss is a reelaboration/response to Elizabeth Gaskell's The Moorland Cottage, where Eliot rewrites the ending into a tragic one presumably because she felt Gaskell had coped out.

And she also brings up another author who sees in Eliot's Adam Bede the same thing but about Gaskell's Ruth, and then Sylvia's Lovers as a re-response to Adam Bede?

Big if true but also somehow never expected George Eliot to have beef with Gaskell XD

[philosophybitmaps]

[itspileofgoodthings]

The Mill on the Floss had Philip write “I could not bear to come like a shadow across your joy” in his letter to Maggie and I have thought about it every single day since I read it.

[tomoleary]

Milton Glaser - George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss Original Cover Art (1965)

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[love-rats]

i'm only 50 pages into the mill on the floss but it's already growing roots inside my ribcage, choking me and becoming a part of my wiring

[bethanydelleman]

"Life did change for Tom and Maggie; and yet they were not wrong in believing that the thoughts and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it-"

-The Mill on the Floss, George Elliot

[henconouthal]

[litandlifequotes]

We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

[respirelejasmin]

These bitter sorrows of childhood - when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet grown wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot

[philosophybitmaps]

[spanghew]

i have a problem where i think everything looks like me. but i think this might actually look like me. i just finished the book...i'm always on board with a climactic flood but the end of this got me [spoiler] angry-sad in a good way like villette

[tremble-in-the-hips]

I was going to sleep, but I just finished The Mill on the Floss and now I'm devastated and in mourning (affectionate ❤)

[semperardens-juli]

1860 George Eliot's 'The Mill on the Floss' contrasts themes of female intellectual growth with notions of family duty.

on Victorian feminism taken from The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, by James Canton (x)

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