The Mill on The Floss

The Mill on The Floss – The novel, spanning roughly 15 years, focuses on the lives of Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom. Growing up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie is intellectually gifted but restricted by gender norms, while Tom struggles with a classical education his father, Mr. Tulliver, insists upon. Maggie forms a secret bond with Philip Wakem, the sensitive, disabled son of her father’s rival. Tom discovers this and forces her to break it off out of family loyalty.