The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss is a novel by English author George Eliot, first published in three volumes on 4 April 1860 by William Blackwood and Sons. The first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York.
Author
English
Novel
Psychological fiction
Domestic fiction
Lincolnshire, c. 1829–1840
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London
4 April 1860
United Kingdom
Print (hardback & paperback): octavo
993, in three volumes
823.8
PR4664 .A1 1979
Spanning a period of 10 to 15 years, the novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings who grow up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss. The mill is at the confluence of the Floss and the smaller River Ripple, near the village of St Ogg's in Lincolnshire, England. Both the rivers and the village are fictional.[1]
Adaptations[edit]
The story was adapted as a film, The Mill on the Floss, in 1937, and as a BBC series in 1978 starring Christopher Blake, Pippa Guard, Judy Cornwell, Ray Smith and Anton Lesser.
In 1994, Helen Edmundson adapted the book for the stage, in a production performed by Shared Experience.
A single-episode television adaptation of the novel was first aired on 1 January 1997. Maggie Tulliver is portrayed by Emily Watson and Mr Tulliver by Bernard Hill. The production was filmed at the historic Chatham Dockyard in Kent for exterior street scenes.[7]
A radio dramatisation in five one-hour parts was broadcast on BBC7 in 2009.[8]