The Mill on the Floss
Eliot, George / Christ, Carol T
The text of The Mill on the Floss, that of the 1862 third edition for which Eliot made her last revisions, has been annotated in order to assist the reader with obscure references and allusions.
"Backgrounds" includes fifteen letters from the 1859-69 period centering on the novel's content and composition, "Brother and Sister" (1869), a little-known sonnet sequence, and eight Victorian reviews and responses, both published and unpublished, on...