#The Mill on the Floss

[littlequeenies]

"Daily express" Saturday February 20, 1965.

STARRY-EYED FAREWELL TO A BEATLE: She won't see Paul McCartney for a month

… which is not, however, the reason for the soulful look borne by Miss Asher on the left. Her friend, Beatle Paul McCartney, is off to the Bahamas to make the second Beatle film; but Miss Asher has been keeping her mind off lonely thoughts by doing some filming herself. She plays that intense girl Maggie Tulliver in a four-part B.B.C. TV serial version of George Eliot's harrowing novel "The Mill on the Floss", the first part of which is screened tomorrow evening. In it, Miss Asher is storm-crossed, gale-swept, and torn by the conflicting demands of family love and the other sort. Which accounts for her expression (and her hairstyle) when she was photographed filming. At 18 she has some big films behind her, considerable acting talent, and a Beatle as a boy friend. What girl could ask for more?

Found via Something About the Beatles Girls facebook group.

[philosophybitmaps]

[respirelejasmin]

... that terrible beating of the heart which makes existence seem simply a painful pulsation.

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

[enchantedsunflowerkat]

rip George Eliot you would’ve loved reputation 🖤🖤🖤

[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

[henconouthal]

[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

[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)

Source

[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

[philosophybitmaps]

[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

[aliteraryprincess]

The George Eliot Project: The Mill on the Floss - YouTube

[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]

Excuse me, George Eliot, how exactly am I supposed to recover from that?!!?!!!

She lulled me into a false sense of security with Silas Marner...