#mill on the floss

[memory-the-unconscious]

Can you tell me about Middlemarch? I've been dying to read some George Elliot hehehe. I don't know why, but I'm quickly prepared for her to become one of my fav writers

Yes, of course!! I have absolutely adored George Eliot ever since I read Middlemarch a few years ago. I love the way she weaves a slow, careful narrative where little things appear so insignificant and yet so beautiful--a story where the importance lies not in the drama or the scale of the plot, but in the emotions and inner reflections of the characters. I also do love her style, from what I've read of her in English. Keep in mind, I did read Middlemarch entirely in the Russian translation, so I can't reflect or comment on the style of that novel specifically, but I am about 100 pages into Mill on the Floss in English. She does an incredible job at portraying the various accents and speech patterns from different layers of society in a way that doesn't feel over the top, and is instead authentic and genuine to the way the characters are developed. She also has many complicated, human female heroines, which is something that is really special in novels from that period (and, arguably, still :( lol). I love everything about George Eliot--her life is super interesting too, and there are so many books of hers that I can't wait to read in the near future! I am especially impatient to read Silas Marner, Daniel Deronda, and Romola (which is actually based on one of my favorite painters of all time, Artemisia Gentileschi).

I hope this helps, and I hope you enjoy the experience of George Eliot's writing. It's slow, and profound, and just really truly lovely. :) I would love to hear some of your thoughts while/after you are reading!

And I'll end on my absolute favorite Middlemarch quote:

"[...] for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

#middlemarch #george eliot #romola #mill on the floss #reading #book recommendations

[love-rats]

i love you george eliot. you were so intelligent and fascinating and your novels breathed with all the depths of human emotion and i feel that you as one person understood what it was like to live, as a child, as an adult, as a human who was just trying their best.

#rambles #literature #george eliot #english literature #mary ann evans #me? getting attached to another 19th century author? not possible #it's too early to say but i may write my dissertation on eliot #middlemarch #mill on the floss #adam bede

[winter-unseelie]

I've been reading mill on the floss for a class of mine... I don't know how to feel about it honestly?

I feel as though it could be more fun, but it's just a bit boring. I am a much bigger fan of big plot things, not the boring realism Elliot likes.

#currently reading #reading #long reads #booklr #george eliot #mill on the floss #victorian literature

[not-sure-who-i-am-rn]

If Maggie Tulliver was around in the 2000s she would have loved My Mum Sold Me To One Direction™ fanfic. No, I won't expand

#Maggie Tulliver #george eliot #classic fiction #Mill on the floss #fanfiction

[itspileofgoodthings]

mill on the floss 🤝 four weddings and a funeral (tv)

devastating me for personal (mostly undefined even to myself) reasons

#mill on the floss #four weddings and a funeral

[philosophybits]

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

#philosophy #quotes #George Eliot #The Mill on the Floss #poetry #art #knowledge #sacred #divine

[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

#george eliot #the mill on the floss #christmas #contrast #color #warmth #frost #snow #quotes #quote

[recycledmoviecostumes]

This dress has seen extensive use over the years. Its first sighting was on actress Sheila Raynor as Tabitha Aykroyd in the 1973 mini-series The Brontës of Haworth. In 1978 it was spotted on Pippa Guard as Maggie Tulliver in The Mill on the Floss. The following year it made a very brief appearance on an extra in The Old Curiosity Shop. 1985’s The Pickwick Papers recycled the dress for use on Tamsin Heatley in the role of Mary, and in 1999 Justine Waddell wore the costume as Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters. In 2007, the gown was worn by Julia Sawalha as Jessie Brown in Cranford, and finally in 2019 on Gemma Whelan as Marian Lister in Gentleman Jack.

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#gentleman jack #cranford #wives and daughters #the pickwick papers #the old curiosity shop #the mill on the floss #the brontes of haworth

[infantisimo]

#reminded me of a lecture in college on 19th century victorian literature. mill on the floss i think. the professor spoke of how #agrarian society was in tune with temporal cycle of nature. seasons religious days tides etc. with the first industrial revolution saw a #dramatic shift in the human experience of time with clocks and timekeeping mostly for the time labourers spent toiling in factories #mentioned how time was now 'spent' rather than 'passed'; leisure was taken completely out of daily life. things became task-oriented which #kept on increasing. the factories would tamper with the clock to keep increasing the time labourers worked on the floor. #you can't tamper with the sun and moon now can you? #anyway this also brings to mind the demand for separate timezones in india #also brings to mind the concept of timesheets and how freelancers charge by the hour. #also brings to mind max weber's protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism for some reason #i side with the luddites

[bethanydelleman]

"Life did change for Tom and Maggie; and yet they were not wrong in believing that the thoughts and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it-"

-The Mill on the Floss, George Elliot

#summer reading interlude #the mill on the floss #george Eliot #what a cute quote! #i am hoping this book is less insane than Wuthering Heights

[philosophybitmaps]

#philosophy #quotes #George Eliot #The Mill on the Floss #Eliot #words #actions #awareness #meaning

[love-rats]

it was a goodreads reader who said "i wish george eliot was alive today so that i could write her fan letters" and i couldn't agree more. she's my favourite author from the two books of hers ive read and i don't think ive ever loved an author more. what i wouldn't give for a time travel machine so i could chat with her

#rambles #george eliot #mill on the floss #middlemarch

[tomoleary]

Milton Glaser - George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss Original Cover Art (1965)

Source

#milton glaser #The Mill on the Floss #george eliot #original art

[aliteraryprincess]

#booklr #george eliot #middlemarch #daniel deronda #the mill on the floss #adam bede #silas marner #romola #felix holt the radical #scenes of clerical life

[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.

#the mill on the floss

[moonshinemagpie]

"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it."

—George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

#george eliot #currently reading #the mill on the floss #booklr