THE MILL ON THE FLOSS

Maggie and Tom Tulliver are sister and brother. Maggie is passionate, impulsive, intelligent and often makes mistakes. Tom is practical, unimaginative, judgemental, honest and hardworking. When their father is declared bankrupt, Tom works hard to pay his father’s debts, while Maggie forms unsuitable friendships and is eventually ostracised by her family and local society.