![]() ![]() This book should really be required reading for parents and brothers and sisters. This is a novel in the finest tradition of Realism, and I can’t help but think that it must have inspired the later Naturalism of Thomas Hardy and his ‘Wessex’ novels. This novel is not of the “mind-and-millinery,” “rank-and-beauty,” or of the “enigmatic” species. ![]() This is not, in any way, shape, or form, a “Silly novel by a Lady Novelist” (see Eliot’s essay “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists,” Westminster Review, October 1856). Some twenty-four hours after finishing this book, I am coming to the conclusion that Eliot may, in fact, represent the absolute pinnacle of writing in the Victorian Age. ![]() This novel, written by ‘George Eliot’ (Mary Anne, or Marian Evans), and first published by Blackwood and Sons in 1860, could have just as easily been titled, “Pride and Prejudice” had not that title been put to use already. Upon completion of the The Mill on the Floss, I realized that I had just finished something monumental-a staggeringly amazing literary achievement. ![]()
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