1-158-820 - Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage-Images

Scene from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, c1880. Aunt Clegg, one of Mrs Tulliver's sisters, looking over the goods in Bob Jakin's pack. After Maggie Tulliver's disgrace, Bob Jakin, the packman or pedlar, was the only person willing to give Maggie and her mother a home. From The Mill on the Floss by George Elio.t (London, c1880). First published London, 1860.