The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot Characters Summary Themes (Urdu) (Hindi)

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The Mill on the Floss
by
George Eliot
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George Eliot Mary Ann Evans
George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880)
an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator
one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
She wrote seven novels:
Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876)
Most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
Although female authors were published under their own names during her lifetime
she wanted to escape the stereotype of women's writing being limited to lighthearted romances.
She also wanted to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic.
Another factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny
Key Facts
Type Of Work: Novel
Genre: Victorian novel, tragedy
Language: English
Time And Place Written: Richmond and Wandsworth in England, 1859–1860
Date Of First Publication: 1860
Publisher: Blackwood and Sons
Tense Past
Key Facts
Setting (Time): 1829–1839
Setting (Place): St. Ogg's in English midlands (real life model for the Floss was the Trent in Lincolnshire)
Protagonist: Maggie Tulliver
Characters List
Maggie Tulliver Mr. and Mrs. Glegg
Tom Tulliver Mr. and Mrs. Deane
Elizabeth Tulliver Mr. and Mrs. Pullet
Jeremy Tulliver Luke Moggs
Lucy Deane Mr. Riley
Philip Wakem Mr. Stelling
Lawyer Wakem Dr. Kenn
Stephen Guest Mr. and Mrs. Moss
Bob Jakin Mr. Pivart
Kezia
Mr. Gore
Mr. Poulter
the Miss Guests
Summary
unnamed narrator dreaming of Dorlcote Mill
she or he knew it years ago
Mr. Tulliver (owner of the mill and its farm)
Decided to send his son, Tom, away to school
Become more than a miller and farmer
When Tom gets home for the summer, he learns that his younger sister Maggie forgot to feed his rabbits and they have all died, so he is furious with her.
She goes to the attic to sulk and play with a voodoo-doll like toy which she uses to work out her feelings.
The Tullivers prepare for a visit Mrs. Tulliver's sisters and their families.
Tom and Maggie play outside, enjoying freshly-baked jam puff
Mrs. Jane Glegg, Mrs. Sophy Pullet, and Mrs. Susan Deane with her daughter Lucy arrive at Dorlcote Mill
All the aunts criticize Maggie’s hair, so she sneaks upstairs with Tom and cuts it herself.
Tom laughs at how stupid she looks, upsetting her greatly.
Mr. Tulliver tells everyone his plans for Tom’s education.
Everyone is surprised, but the uncles are easily convinced it’s a good idea.
Mrs. Glegg is quite scornful and unpleasant about the decision and ends up fighting with Mr. Tulliver. She leaves angrily.
Mrs. Tulliver mentions to Mr. Tulliver that he shouldn’t have fought with Mrs. Glegg, because she might insist he pay back the 500 pounds he borrowed from her.
Mrs. Tulliver takes Tom, Maggie, and Lucy to Garum Firs, the Pullets’ farm.
Maggie is in a bad mood because Tom has been favoring Lucy all morning
Tom, still mad at Maggie
This makes Maggie more and more miserable. She gets irrationally mad at Lucy as well.
Maggie shoves Lucy into the mud.

Maggie is so miserable she decides to run away and join the gypsies.
She announces she wants to stay with them and joins them around their fire, but quickly realizes it wasn’t all she imagined it would be and gets frightened.
She tells the gypsies she must be off, but they insist on taking her home. Maggie is terrified she will be murdered.
On the road, Maggie and the gypsy run into Mr. Tulliver, on his way back from Gritty's. He pays the gypsy for his trouble and embraces his daughter, saying she must never leave him. Maggie does not get in trouble for running away.
Tom's schooling at Mr. Stelling’s begins.
Tom finds the lessons largely unpleasant, as he is the only pupil and it is the kind of learning that he finds the most difficult.