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The Mill on the Floss, published in 1860, is a novel by George Eliot that follows the Tulliver siblings, Maggie and Tom, through their tumultuous lives in rural England. The novel explores themes of gender and class, as well as the tension between individual desires and societal expectations. Eliot drew on her own experiences growing up in rural England to write The Mill on the Floss, and the novel is often considered to be her most autobiographical work. 

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