The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, Fiction, Classics

Maggie is the focus, an intelligent young woman who yearns for the love her father provided before his death and desires experience of the wider world she cannot get in her remote location. Her desires clash with those of her more pragmatic brother as they experience various trials including the death of their father, bankruptcy and the loss of the mill.
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, a prominent Victorian novelist. The author of Silas Marner and Middlemarch among others, her works have become classics of English literature. She is noted for her realism and acute psychological insight.

Mary Ann Evans (1819 - 1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871-72) and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.