... search for autonomy and selfhood in opposition to the social constraints placed upon the female, including the demand for marriage. This conflict, usually with autobiographical resonance and often framed in metaphors of imprisonment, is embodied in such novels as Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) and Villette (1853), Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847), and Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860). As ... Marian Evans, the Westminster reviewer, was George Eliot. The book was a brilliant success. Her other major works include THE MILL ON THE FLOSS (1860), a story of destructive family ...

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