Her first published work was a religious poem. Influenced by a favorite governess, she became a religious evangelical as an adolescent. Mary Ann, the youngest child and a favorite of her father's, received a good education for a young woman of her day. She was born in 1819 at a farmstead in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, where her father was estate manager. With Rebecca Mead, Fiona Shaw, Dafydd Mills Daniel, Philip Davis and Peggy Reynolds.Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Studio managers: Keith Graham, Mike Etherden, Jenni Burnett and Alison Craig.įirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 6th - 17th April 2020.įree Thinking: George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss George Eliot, the Narrator … Anna Maxwell Martin This stunning adaption is full of humour and high drama and features a rich, filmic soundscape.Īlso included is bonus programme Free Thinking: George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss, hosted by Shahidha Bari, in which writer Rebecca Mead, actor Fiona Shaw and academics Dafydd Mills Daniel, Philip Davis and Peggy Reynolds discuss the background to Eliot’s much-loved 1860 novel and read selected extracts. Maggie, meanwhile, is drawn to two very different men: kindred spirit Philip Wakem, the son of her father's enemy, and the charming, seductive Stephen Guest, already promised to her cousin, Lucy.Īs she struggles to reconcile passion and loyalty, the choices Maggie makes will set her against her beloved brother – with tragic consequences. Following their father’s bankruptcy, Tom leaves school and enters the world of business, determined to repay the family’s debts and regain their home. But it is the love of her stolid, dutiful brother Tom that Maggie craves most, and despite their opposing natures, the two forge a close bond.īut as adults, their paths diverge.
With her dark, striking looks and quick intelligence she is the misfit of the Tulliver family, and while her father dotes on her, her mother despairs of her rebelliousness. Growing up at Dorlcote Mill in the beautiful English countryside, young Maggie yearns for approval and affection. George Eliot’s classic Victorian epic about a brother and sister pitted against one another in love and life, starring Anna Maxwell Martin.īased on George Eliot’s own rural upbringing and relationship with her estranged brother, The Mill on the Floss is a powerful, dynamic tale of familial rejection, sibling rivalry and what happens when the head confronts the heart.
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