Ashley's review
The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
i've read this book a few times, and have written about it, and still it has more layers of secrets for me every time. it's a book about the struggles of childhood, the struggles of adolescence, the struggles of womanhood---the struggles to define oneself against, as in many victorian novels, the restrictions of cultural mores.
for me, this is a book about the conflicts between internal imagination and external realities. and so as much as it's about victorian realities, i think for everybody, and perhaps in a way especially for those women who were plagued by being different as girls, this is a book worth re-reading every few years.
for me, this is a book about the conflicts between internal imagination and external realities. and so as much as it's about victorian realities, i think for everybody, and perhaps in a way especially for those women who were plagued by being different as girls, this is a book worth re-reading every few years.
