The Mill on the Floss 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
The Nixie of the Mill-Pond of joy ran together with hers as they kissed. The Nixie of the Mill-Pond "The Nixie of the Mill-Pond" is a German fairy tale. The Brothers Grimm collected in their "Grimm's Fairy Tales", as tale number 181. Andrew Lang included a version in "The Yellow Fairy Book", citing his source Hermann Kletke and titling it "The Nixy". It is Aarne-Thompson type 316, the nix of the mill-pond. A miller became poor as custom no longer favored the watermill. A nixie appeared to him with the boon of returning him to a man of means if he yielded to her in