Maggie Tulliver in the Boat

Maggie Tulliver in the Boat

F. S. Church

c.1900

Photo-etching from a drawing

Source: Eliot, Illustrated Cabinet ed. of the novel, vol. II: 354.

A desperate Maggie finds the strength to strike out by boat to summon Tom from Dorlcote mill, which is already partially engulfed in water — thus initiating the final reunion with her previously censorious brother. Soon, bulky fragments of machinery loosed from a wharf will bear down on them both, consigning them together to a watery grave.

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