Her mother laments her intractable hair and “dark” colouring her father laments that she wasn’t born a boy. I’d remembered that The Mill on the Floss has some very feminist messages in it, but I’d forgotten how overt and continuous those messages are! From the very beginning of the novel, Eliot’s narrator points out that Maggie is going to suffer because she is far too clever for “a gell”. In this case, my feelings remain the same, but my appreciation is rekindled. Nowadays sometimes I can barely be bothered to record my thoughts-but I do, because I love looking back and remembering what my past self thought about a book. How things have changed in 6 years! Back then, I was deep into academia and writing essays. Re-reading my old review, I’m mostly struck by how verbose and descriptive I am, and how much plot summary I give. However, the rest of this edition is quite beautiful and high quality, from the texture and weight of the paper to the cover to the print.
They lack much in the way of detail, and there aren’t even captions below them.
To be honest, the illustrations are extremely lacklustre. The edition I chose to read this time is relatively recent-1981-published by the Franklin Library with illustrations by Herbert Tauss. I have two different editions of the Penguin Classics, then a few antique editions I found in England. George Eliot is one of my favourite Victorian novelists (one of my favourite novelists, indeed), and The Mill on the Floss is my favourite of her works and one of my favourite books-so much so that I actually own 5 copies. I stand by it however, I have additional thoughts to augment what I said previously. You might want to read my original review of 6 years ago. This is my second reading of The Mill on the Floss.
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