In her desperate times the heroine of this novel is taken in by Bob Jakin and is only offered sympat
In her desperate times the heroine of this novel is taken in by Bob Jakin and is only offered sympathy by her cousin and her Aunt Glegg.  Following the second stroke of the heroine's father, who was forced to work for his enemy, Wakem, a two-year period passes in St. Ogg's before this novel brings Stephen Guest and Lucy Deane onto center stage.  The action climaxes with a massive flood that eventually results in the drowning deaths of Tom and Maggie Tulliver in the titular river.  FTP, name this novel by George Eliot.
In her desperate times the heroine of this novel is taken in by Bob Jakin and is only offered sympathy by her cousin and her Aunt Glegg.  
The Mill on the Floss