The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

First published in the year 1860, the present fictional novel ‘The Mill on the Floss’ was written by one of the foremost novelists and social critic of the Victorian era George Eliot. The novel spans a period of 10 to 15 years and details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings growing up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss at its junction with the more minor River Ripple near the village of St. Ogg’s in Lincolnshire, England. Both the river and the village are fictional.