![]() ![]() (In chapter 3, the character Mr Riley is described as an "auctioneer and appraiser thirty years ago", placing the opening events of the novel in approximately 1829, thirty years before the novel's composition in 1859. The novel begins in the late 1820s or early 1830s several historical references place the events in the book after the Napoleonic Wars but before the Reform Act of 1832. ![]() ![]() Both the rivers and the village are fictional. The mill is situated at the junction of the River Floss and the more minor River Ripple, near the village of St Ogg's in Lincolnshire, England. 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 first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York. 640 About the book : The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot, first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood. ![]()
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