The main character's life takes a pious turn when she's given a copy of Thomas a Kempis' Imitation of Christ, but this ends upon meeting the kind, crippled son of one of her father's enemies.
The main character's life takes a pious turn when she's given a copy of Thomas a Kempis' Imitation of Christ, but this ends upon meeting the kind, crippled son of one of her father's enemies. Her father dies of an illness after confronting that same enemy, Lawyer Wakem. After returning to the town near the end of the work, the protagonist is given a job as governess of Dr. Kenn's children, and is forgiven by her cousin Lucy for running away. She is romantically pursued throughout the novel by both Phillip Wakem and Stephen Guest, but she ends up dying in her brother's arms during a flood. FTP, name this novel about Tom and Maggie Tulliver and the titular estate in the town of St. Ogg, a work by George Eliot
The main character's life takes a pious turn when she's given a copy of Thomas a Kempis' Imitation of Christ, but this ends upon meeting the kind, crippled son of one of her father's enemies.
The {Mill on the Floss}