IDENTITY
The Mill on the Floss
Literature
Work Summary
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot is a novel following siblings Maggie and Tom Tulliver from childhood into adulthood within a provincial English family whose fortunes decline. It explores family loyalty, education, social convention, emotional conflict and Maggie's struggle between personal desire and obligations to others.
Evidence Summary
The novel supplies language he actively reuses in correspondence.
Documented textual use; no extra causal claim is added.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
George Eliot
Work
The Mill on the Floss
Years / Period
Dec 1882
Van Gogh Relation
Read, Quoted / Copied
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
Dec 1882 — Letter 294
Quoted / Copied · Quoted / alluded to
The scholarly notes identify Van Gogh's quoted wording as coming from The Mill on the Floss.
Response: The novel supplies language he actively reuses in correspondence.
Connection: Documented textual use; no extra causal claim is added.
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Study Subject
Themes
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