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1851 Eliot met George Henry Lewes By 1854 They decided to live together though Lewes was married then. In july 1854 Lewes and Eliot travelled to Weimar魏玛 and Berlin together for the purpose of research. Feminism ＆the Mill on the Floss Main characters Maggie Tulliver- Young female protagonist Tom Tulliver- Maggies brother Philip Wakem- Hunchbacked 驼背classmate of Tom, and friend/suitor to Maggie Mr Tulliver- Maggies and Toms father, owner of the mill. Stephen Guest- Affluent suitor to Lucy Plot summary The novel spans a period of 10 to 15 years, from Toms and Maggies childhood up until their deaths in a flood on the floss. The book is fictional autobiography in part, reflecting the disgrace that George Eliot herself had while in a lengthy relationship with a married man, George Henry Lewes Maggie Tulliver with her parents and her older brother Tom be repressed by 我只想如镜子反映事物那样，把人物和事件反映在我 脑子里的表象一丝不爽地叙述出来而已。我这面镜子毫无 疑问是有缺点的。有时候，轮廓会给歪曲了，照出来的影 子模糊而混乱。不过，我总觉得自己有责任把事物反映在 我脑子里的表象尽可能准确地告诉读者，正如我是在证人 席上宣誓要忠实叙述我所见所闻的实情一样。 ——乔治· 艾略特 1 Marriage and the home --The life of women in Victorian era was generally centered on family --The only role of women in the Victorian era was to get married ,have children, please their husbands and look after the homely chores. 5 Women in the workforce The explosive growth of industry, especially the textile industry, brought hundreds of thousands of women into factory jobs. In factories, women were employed as cheap labor and were forced to do very heavy and hard jobs for about half the usual pay. In this period, sexual inequality in politics, economic life, education and social positions still prevailed; women were still regarded as second-class citizens. Man for the field and woman for the hearth灶台; Man for the sword and woman for the needle; Man to command and woman to obey. * George Eliot (1819—1880) Realist writer One of the most powe