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The Mill on the Floss

by Eliot, George

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London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1986. Three volumes. Original brown cloth, blind stamped, gilt on spine. 16p ads at end of Vol III. New endpapers to all three volumes. Spines bumped and hinges worn. Binding is tight.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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GEORGE ELIOT was born in Nuneaton on November 22, 1819. Baptized Mary Anne Evans, Eliot chose to write using a male pen name. She was sent away to school but returned when her mother died in 1836. She later moved to Coventry with her father. After her father's death she became the Assistant Editor of the Westminster Review in 1851. She also met George Henry Lewes this year and they became partners for the rest of his life. Lewes was already married, although he and his wife both considered their relationship to be an open one, but he and Eliot set up home together, much to the dismay of polite London society. In 1857 Eliot published Amos Barton in Blackwood's Magazine and in 1859 her novel Adam Bede was published to great acclaim. Her first attempt to write Middlemarch , her most famous novel, ended in failure. Abandoning it, she began a short novella entitled Miss Brooke which was eventually integrated into the final version of Middlemarch . The novel was published serially in eight parts in 1871. Lewes died in 1878 and Eliot married again in 1880. Her husband, John Walter Cross was an American who was twenty years her junior. George Eliot died on December 22, 1880 at 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea and is buried in Highgate Cemetery next to Lewes.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Mill on the Floss
Author
Eliot, George
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
William Blackwood & Sons
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1986
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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