ELIOT, George.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Mill on the Floss. First edition of her second full-length novel, which sold 4,600 copies within four days. Eliot's authorship of Adam Bede was uncovered soon following its publication the previous year, and the immediate success of The Mill on the Floss dispelled her anxieties over the public response to her books now that her identity and gender were public knowledge.

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