"The Mill on the Floss The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood. The first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York. The novel spans a period of 10 to 15 years and details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings growing up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss at its junction with the more minor River Ripple near the village of St Ogg's in Lincolnshire, England. The river and the village are fictional. The novel begins in"
"production was filmed at the historic Chatham Dockyard in Kent for exterior street scenes. In 1994, Helen Edmundson adapted the play for the stage, in a production performed by Shared Experience. A radio dramatisation in five one-hour parts was broadcast on BBC7 in 2009. The Mill on the Floss The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood. The first American edition was published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York. The novel spans a period of 10 to 15 years and details the lives"
"the old mill, she sets out with him to rescue Lucy Deane and her family. In a brief tender moment, the brother and sister are reconciled from all past differences. When their boat capsizes, the two drown in an embrace, thus giving the book its Biblical epigraph: ""In their death they were not divided"". Like other novels by George Eliot, ""The Mill on the Floss"" articulates the tension between circumstances and the spiritual energies of individual characters struggling against those circumstances. A certain determinism is at play throughout the novel, from Mr Tulliver's grossly imprudent inability to keep himself from"
"The Everett Mills The Everett Mills are a group of buildings consisting of the Everett and Stone Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts. A former cotton textile mill, it was the site of the start of the Bread and Roses strike in 1912 and the former workplace of Robert Frost. The Essex Company was founded in 1845. Before the city of Lawrence was even incorporated, the Essex Company laid plans for turning an area of farmland on the Merrimack River into the country’s first planned industrial city. The Essex Company built the Stone Mill, then known as the Lawrence Machine Shop from"
"Sometime in the 19th century the roof was raised to include two dormers. The watermill at Bintry was used in 1996 by the BBC for location work on their adaptation of George Eliot’s ""The Mill on the Floss"" which was aired on 1 January 1997 and starred Emily Watson as Maggie Tulliver and Mr Tulliver by Bernard Hill. Bintry Watermill Bintry Watermill is located on the River Wensum, about a mile (2 km) west of the village of Bintree in the English county of Norfolk. The watermill is thought to have stood at this location since 1454. The present mill"
"east of Gainsborough. The boundary crosses ""Thorndike Way"" (A631) and briefly follows the B1433. At Belt Farm it meets ""Thonock"", then follows ""The Belt Road"", to the south of Gainsborough Golf Club (also nearby are Thonock Park and Karston Lakes golf courses), then down ""Thonock Hill"" - the edge of the Trent Valley. Many scholars believe Gainsborough to be the basis for the fictional town of St Ogg's in George Eliot's ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860). The novelist visited Gainsborough in 1859, staying in the house of a shipbuilder on Bridge Street (which survives today as the United Services"
"January 2014. The Mill on the Floss (film) The Mill on the Floss is a 1936 British drama film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Frank Lawton, Victoria Hopper, Geraldine Fitzgerald and James Mason. It was based on the novel ""The Mill on the Floss"" by George Eliot. The film was made at Shepperton Studios. Although he is not credited in the film, Basil Dean, who was married to the leading lady Victoria Hopper, was heavily involved in the planning and the production of the film. ""The Mill on the Floss"" was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video"
"Matlock Bath, Cromford and Crich. The Anthony Gell School qualifies as a Sports College. Fanny Shaw's Playing Field, just out of the centre of town, is the principal recreation area for the north of the town. It houses a new skate park and play area. In the south of the town, there is the ""Rec"", where there is another children's play area, along with cricket and football pitches. Haarlem Mill has been mentioned as the possible model for the mill in George Eliot's ""The Mill on the Floss"". The town of Snowfield in George Eliot's Adam Bede is also said"
"The Mill on the Floss (film) The Mill on the Floss is a 1936 British drama film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Frank Lawton, Victoria Hopper, Geraldine Fitzgerald and James Mason. It was based on the novel ""The Mill on the Floss"" by George Eliot. The film was made at Shepperton Studios. Although he is not credited in the film, Basil Dean, who was married to the leading lady Victoria Hopper, was heavily involved in the planning and the production of the film. ""The Mill on the Floss"" was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on 28"
"England, Greece and Rome, and a series of county histories which were no less profitable. Pinnock lost nearly all his money in outside speculation. Pinnock is mentioned, as a depressing set of texts, in contrast to Washington Irving's stories, in George Eliot's novel ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860): Maggie, speaking about her 'gloomy fancy' to her cousin Lucy says: """"Perhaps it comes from the school diet - watery rice-pudding spiced with Pinnock. Let us hope it will give way before my mother's custards and this charming Geoffrey Crayon."""" Pinnock's son, William Henry Pinnock (1813–1885), a clergyman, was the editor"
"George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, including ""Adam Bede"" (1859), ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), ""Silas Marner"" (1861), ""Romola"" (1862–63), ""Middlemarch"" (1871–72), and ""Daniel Deronda"" (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. Although female authors were published under their own names during her lifetime, she wanted to escape the stereotype"
"literary work ever written. In 2015, writers from outside the UK voted it first among all British novels ""by a landslide"". The various film and television adaptations of Eliot's books have re-introduced her to the wider reading public. George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, including ""Adam Bede"" (1859), ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), ""Silas Marner"" (1861), ""Romola"" (1862–63), ""Middlemarch"" (1871–72),"
"poem Blake inscribed a quotation from the Bible: The phrase ""dark Satanic Mills"", which entered the English language from this poem, is often interpreted as referring to the early Industrial Revolution and its destruction of nature and human relationships. This view has been linked to the fate of the Albion Flour Mills, which was the first major factory in London. Designed by John Rennie and Samuel Wyatt, the factory was built on land purchased by Wyatt in Southwark. This rotary steam-powered flour mill by Matthew Boulton and James Watt used grinding gears by Rennie to produce 6,000 bushels of flour"
"the Church of England 'Benefice of Reepham, Hackford with Whitwell, Kerdiston, etc.', which also has churches at Reepham, Salle, and Wood Dalling. Thurning Hall is an 18th-century country house with a walled garden, set in and surrounded by woodland. A large square three-storey Georgian building, it remains a private house but can be hired for weddings. Shortly after the present house was built, it was advertised to let: ""Kelly's Directory"", 1883, says: In 1996, the Hall was one of the locations for the filming of a BBC television version of George Eliot's ""The Mill on the Floss"". During the first"
"Nelstrops Albion Flour Mills Nelstrops Albion Flour Mills, also known as Nelstrop Albion Corn Mill, Nelstrop's Flour Mill or Albion Mills, is a corn mill in Heaton Norris, in the suburbs of Stockport, England. It lies at the top of Lancashire Hill on the roundabout next to ""The Navigation Inn"". The company, known as Nelstrops, which operates the mills, has become one of the leading producers of flour in the United Kingdom. The first mill on the site was built in 1820 by William Nelstrop. It ran on steam power, using water from the Ashton Canal. A major fire in"
"the fire in a load of hay which stood on the scales by the side of the mill. Fought's Mill Fought's Mill was a gristmill built by Jacob Fought in 1771 in West Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania. The mill operated on water received from two dams that had been built on Buffalo Creek. This water power was used to unload the grain from the wagons and raise it to the first and second floor levels by rope and pulley. The grain was then ground between two millstones, which were ridged on the joining sides, to make flour, cornmeal, and"
"Owings Upper Mill The Owings Upper Mill (also known as A.E. Groff's Flour Mill) is a historic grist mill located at Owings Mills, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a large -story brick structure, . The building stands on a low stone foundation, surmounted by a molded brick water table. Two frame extensions were built sometime in the 1880s. The words ""EUREKA FLOUR MILL"" are worked into the façade in purple brick between the second- and third-story windows. The building is probably the oldest and largest mill surviving in Baltimore County and was the last known project of Samuel"
"PBS American Experience documentary ""Triangle Fire"" were shot on the sixth floor of the Everett Mills. The Everett Mills The Everett Mills are a group of buildings consisting of the Everett and Stone Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts. A former cotton textile mill, it was the site of the start of the Bread and Roses strike in 1912 and the former workplace of Robert Frost. The Essex Company was founded in 1845. Before the city of Lawrence was even incorporated, the Essex Company laid plans for turning an area of farmland on the Merrimack River into the country’s first planned industrial"
"George Eliot's character Tom Tulliver in ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), all refer to the line ""My Name is Norval"". Young George Osborne recites it, eliciting tears from his aunt, in Thackeray's ""Vanity Fair."" I1847-48) p. 504. Harry Walmers in Dickens' ""The Boots at the Holly Tree Inn"" also refers to it: There is also another reference to Norval in ""Nicholas Nickleby"", when Wackford Squeers, while in custody, refers to his son as ""a young Norval"", supposedly the darling of the town. Rev. George B. Cheever, American divine and abolitionist, references it in his 1857 broadside ""God Against Slavery""."
"Owings, the American Revolutionary War patriot and enterprising merchant. The Owings Upper Mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Owings Upper Mill The Owings Upper Mill (also known as A.E. Groff's Flour Mill) is a historic grist mill located at Owings Mills, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a large -story brick structure, . The building stands on a low stone foundation, surmounted by a molded brick water table. Two frame extensions were built sometime in the 1880s. The words ""EUREKA FLOUR MILL"" are worked into the façade in purple brick between the second-"
"Fought's Mill Fought's Mill was a gristmill built by Jacob Fought in 1771 in West Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania. The mill operated on water received from two dams that had been built on Buffalo Creek. This water power was used to unload the grain from the wagons and raise it to the first and second floor levels by rope and pulley. The grain was then ground between two millstones, which were ridged on the joining sides, to make flour, cornmeal, and feed for livestock. During extremely cold conditions, the mill would be operated during the day and night, to"
"Litton Mill Litton Mill is a textile mill at Millers Dale, near Tideswell in Derbyshire. The original 19th-century mill became notorious during the Industrial Revolution for its unsavoury employment practices, luridly described by the commentators of the day, and the testimony of Robert Blincoe, a parish apprentice who had been indentured to work at the mill. It was set up in 1782 by Ellis Needham and Thomas Frith, both farmers with small estates in the area. The mill was powered by the water of the River Wye, using Richard Arkwright's water frame. It could be said that the company was"
"Terrace Mill The Terrace Mill is a historic watermill in Terrace, Minnesota, United States, now operated as a museum. Managed by the non-profit Terrace Mill Foundation, the mill contains a gallery, theatre, and gift shop, while the grounds host outdoor events. The mill and four associated structures are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Terrace Mill Historic District for having local significance in commerce, engineering, industry, and transportation. The first flour mill on the site was built in 1870 and operated into the mid-1890s, when it was moved to nearby Brooten, Minnesota, to be closer to"
"Red Mill (Clinton, New Jersey) The Red Mill is a 4-story grist mill and historic site located along the south branch of the Raritan River in Clinton, New Jersey. It was built around 1810 as an industrial mill. It has served several roles, including a wool processing plant, a peach basket factory, and a textile mill. It is now a museum that is part of the Red Mill Museum Village, and is on the National Register of Historic Places under the name David McKinney Mill. The Red Mill was built by Ralph Hunt in 1810, on land he had inherited"
"the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The mill is part of the Phelps Mill Historic District, which also includes the general store and an Italianate miller's house. Phelps Mill Phelps Mill is a flour mill in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States, on the Otter Tail River. The mill was built in 1888–1889 by William E. Thomas, a local entrepreneur who owned a flour and feed business in Fergus Falls. During that time, wheat was a high-demand crop, and nearly one thousand flour mills were in operation throughout Minnesota. Thomas began constructing a wooden dam on the river"
"was also sometimes used to make the right-hand margin line up more neatly. By the time dictionaries were introduced in the mid 17th century, the spelling system of English had started to stabilise. By the 19th century, most words had set spellings, though it took some time before they diffused throughout the English-speaking world. In The Mill on the Floss (1860), English novelist George Eliot satirized the attitude of the English rural gentry of the 1820s towards orthography: The modern English spelling system, with its national variants, spread together with the expansion of public education later in the 19th century."
"Grafton Flour Mill The Grafton Flour Mill is a historic mill on the Milwaukee River in Grafton, Wisconsin, United States. The original section was built in 1846 by a group of Yankee farmers as a flour mill and produced flour for many years through a succession of owners, including White Lily Flour in the 1880s. During the depression it was bought by Badger Worsted Mills, and served as a woolen mill. It remained as such until the 1960s. Currently, the building houses a yarn store and a personal wellness center. On June 30, 1983, it was added to the National"
"Schuyler Mill – Ford Soybean Plant Complex The Schuyler Mill, also known as the Ford Soybean Plant Complex, is an old mill site that Henry Ford turned into one of his small village industry factories. It is located at 555-600 Michigan Avenue in Saline, Michigan, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. In 1845, David Schuyler Haywood constructed a gristmill at this site on the western edge of Saline, Michigan. A small settlement, Barnegat, soon coalesced around the mill site; Barnegat was annexed by the village of Saline in 1848. However, by 1865, business declined,"
"Old Morrison Mill The Old Morrison Mill is a historic gristmill in Burnt Prairie, Illinois. The mill was originally constructed in 1859 in Enfield and was moved to Burnt Prairie in the late nineteenth century, replacing another mill built in 1820. The mill served as the farming community's local grain processing facility, converting wheat to flour and corn to meal. While the mill was originally horse-powered, a wood-fueled boiler was installed in 1897; the boiler's power source later changed to coal, a diesel engine, and ultimately electricity. Parkin and Martin owned the mill after its relocation to Burnt Prairie until"
"in what was once the farming community of East Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The so-called Boston Associates, including Nathan Appleton and Patrick Tracy Jackson of the Boston Manufacturing Company, named the new mill town after their visionary leader, Francis Cabot Lowell, who had died five years before its 1823 incorporation. As Lowell's population grew, it acquired land from neighboring towns, and diversified into a full-fledged urban center. Many of the men who composed the labor force for constructing the canals and factories had immigrated from Ireland, escaping the poverty and Potato Famines of the 1830s and 1840s. The mill workers, young single"
"Phelps Mill Phelps Mill is a flour mill in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States, on the Otter Tail River. The mill was built in 1888–1889 by William E. Thomas, a local entrepreneur who owned a flour and feed business in Fergus Falls. During that time, wheat was a high-demand crop, and nearly one thousand flour mills were in operation throughout Minnesota. Thomas began constructing a wooden dam on the river in the spring of 1888, although the dam was prone to leakage and had to be shored up with sandbags, dirt, gravel, and other materials. The mill itself was"
"cathedral. The series initially aroused some controversy because of its portrayal of senior clergy as bungling incompetents, although some clergy enjoyed it. In the opening credits, St Albans Cathedral was shown as the fictional St Ogg's, but with the twisted spire of Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield added to the central tower. The background to the opening credits was the headmaster's garden of St. Albans School. The name ""St. Ogg's"" may have been taken from a fictional village in George Eliot's novel ""The Mill on the Floss"". It proved to be the first of a series of"
"Gillette's Grist Mill Gillette's Grist Mill is a historic grist mill on Maple Hollow Road in New Hartford, Connecticut. Probably built in the mid-19th century, it is an extremely rare example of a grist mill with a surviving water wheel. The mill property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Gillette's Grist Mill is located in what is now a rural area in central New Hartford. It is set on the northern bank of the Nepaug River, a short way west of where Maple Hollow Road crosses. Although the area supported more industry in the 19th"