Maggie Tulliver, 150 Years Old.

Posted on March 29, 2010 by kara

Tom and Maggie overwhelmed by the flood Photo: Getty Images

On the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Mill on the Floss, Kathryn Hughes celebrates George Eliot’s most deeply autobiographical novel in the guardian uk,

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We know our letters just fine, and we know our numbers to a certain point, but books were always the realm of four-eyed poindexters with bowler hats and cravats. That’s why it pleases us so that America’s proud illiterates are finally stepping up and pushing back against the crushing tide of education that threatens to swallow us all into its gaping maw of checked facts. Champions of the Ignorantiat will not like it here.
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