![]() ![]() But when Stephen Guest, the fiancè of Tom's and Maggie's cousin Lucy, enters the picture, a chaotic clash of romance, family pride, and deception leads to disaster. ![]() Along with Maggie’s story, the novel also tells a companion tale of the social. Intelligent and headstrong but trapped by the conventions of family tradition and rural life, Maggie is one of the great heroines of Victorian literature. Tom, now a responsible but still hot-tempered young man, tries to restore the family's lost fortunes, but also tries to stop what he perceives to be a growing romance between Maggie and Philip. This classic novel, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver. ![]() As the children grow to adulthood, the bad blood between Tulliver and Wakem comes to a boil, with tragic results. But Tom cares little for Philip, the result of a long-running feud between Tom's father and Philip's, a wealthy man to whom Mr. Maggie has a friendly relationship with the lame Philip Wakem, a good lad who is deeply fond of Maggie. He has two children, hot-headed and arrogant Tom and kind-hearted Maggie. Tulliver owns a mill on the Floss River in Lincolnshire. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.Īctors: Frank Lawton, Victoria Hopper, Griffith Jones The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. Summary: Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. ![]()
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