The Mill on the Floss

[Cleotolstoy]

I loved Philip, Stephen is a controller. Maggie could have done with attending a locally run Freedom Project. Her dad gave me the ick. How else could it have ended?

Poor Maggie. I loved her to bits. Tom was a right bastard.

Oh god, I had to study this book for A-Level English & I hated it soooo much I have now blocked out the entire plot from my mind!

I read it a few years ago and loved it, its so sad, I still think about the poor little wench.

CheeseIsMyPatronus - same, he would have been another Stephen if he had a love interest, just assuming he could have what he wanted.

APurpleSquirrel - only just discovered it at 51, loved it but suspect my lived experience made it all the more relatable.

I read it when I was really too young, and the ending made such an impression on me.

’In their death they were not divided.’ Still well up just at the thought of it.

It’s really sad that the fierce, free- spirited child Maggie becomes such an unhappy woman, because she is totally screwed over by the men in her life. Philip is Ok, but ultimately a bit wet. Stephen, Tom, Mr Tulliver and Mr Wakem are all awful. Yes, what Maggie needed was a good feminist consciousness- raising group.

The only George Eliot book I haven't been able to finish!