{"product_id":"the-mill-on-the-floss-introduction-by-rosemary-ashton-9780679417262","title":"The Mill on the Floss: Introduction by Rosemary Ashton","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Mill on the Floss\u003c\/i\u003e, George Eliot re-creates her own childhood through the story of the wild, gifted Maggie Tulliver and her spoiled, selfish brother. Though tragic in its outcome, this tenderly comic novel combines vivid vignettes of family life with a magnificent portrait of the heroine and an acute critique of Victorian sexual politics. Eliot had no peer when it came to finding the drama at the heart of normal lives lived in tandem with the gigantic rhythms of nature itself, and in \u003ci\u003eThe Mill on the Floss\u003c\/i\u003e she shows us once again how thoroughly the art of fiction can satisfy our deepest mental and emotional cravings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARY ANN EVANS was born on November 22, 1819, at Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, England. After her father's death she settled in London and from 1851 to 1854 she served as a writer and editor of the Westminster Review, the organ of the Radical party. In London she met she met George Henry Lewes, a journalist and advanced thinker. Lewes was separated from his wife, who had had two sons by another man, but had been unable to obtain a divorce. In a step daring for Victorian times, Mary Ann Evans began living openly with Lewes in 1854, in a union they both considered as sacred as a legal marriage and one that lasted until his death in 1878. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith Lewes's encouragement, Mary Ann Evans wrote her first fictional work, \"The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton,\" for Blackwood's Magazine in 1857; it was followed by two more stories published under the pseudonym George Elliot--\"George\" because it was Lewes's name and \"Eliot\" because, she said, it was \"a good mouth-filling, easily pronounced word.\" At the age of thirty-nine she used her memories of Warwickshire to write her first long novel, \u003ci\u003eAdam Bede\u003c\/i\u003e (1859), a book that established her as the foremost woman novelist in her day. Then came \u003ci\u003eThe Mill on the Floss\u003c\/i\u003e (1860), \u003ci\u003eSilas Marner\u003c\/i\u003e (1861), and \u003ci\u003eRomola\u003c\/i\u003e (1863). Her masterpiece and one of the greatest English novels, \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1871-72. Her last work was \u003ci\u003eDaniel Deronda\u003c\/i\u003e (1876). Before her death in 1880, she had been recognized by her contemporaries as the greatest living writer of English fiction.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327010214162,"sku":"9780679417262","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_92f73826-7107-4714-9072-960b650695ea.jpg?v=1748528082","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-mill-on-the-floss-introduction-by-rosemary-ashton-9780679417262","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}