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 Mill (TV series) laughing". Arifa Akbar, also at "The Independent", compared its social realism with the BBC's "The Village" but noted the plot nevertheless had sufficient intrigue and promise to keep an audience interested. Ceri Radford in "The Telegraph" summarised it as "Take every cliché you can think of about the Industrial Revolution, mix them all up into one gloomy morass of woe, and that’s pretty much last night’s opening". The Mill (TV series) The Mill is a 2013 period television drama broadcast on Britain's Channel 4. It is based on real-life stories and people of the textile mill workers at Quarry Bank