Mill on the Floss, The

Novel (1860) by George Eliot. The central character is Maggie Tulliver, clever and lively daughter of the miller of Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss. Her entanglement with the deformed Philip Wakem, son of her father's enemy, and Stephen Guest, her cousin's betrothed, leads to the tragic conclusion in which Maggie and her brother Tom are drowned by the flooding river.