The Mill on the FlossThe text of The Mill on the Floss, based on the 1862 third edition for which Eliot made her last revisions, has been annotated to assist the reader with obscure references and allusions. Backgrounds includes fifteen letters from the 1859 69 period centring on the novel's content and composition; Brother and Sister (1869), a little known sonnet sequence; and eight Victorian reviews and responses, both published and unpublished, on the novel, including