Child Psychology in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss

Abstract

George Eliot, a 19^th century English woman writer and journalist, one of the leading authors of the Victorian era, is known for her connection of intellectual elements and emotional quality. Mary Ann Evans, using a pen name George Eliot, is of a great importance for her novels, in which she expresses her personal views of the period she lived in by different means than the other authors. She managed to gain a significant importance as a writer because her novels were different from the stereotypical light-hearted romances of her day. Her writing style reveals her interest in the religious moral code, in-depth analysis of a character, intellectual potential, and sociological interest. Eliot united the presence of the author with psychological analyses of her characters, frequently placing herself in the position of a main heroine.