Her Posthumous Hope in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth

Abstract

This study is to understand some literary solutions to feminist questions with two English novels, Geroge Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, which was published in 1905, some forty years later than The Mill on the Floss, in order to study the differences made on women's position in society and also to find out any progress or development has been accomplished in this area through the so-called brilliant industrialization achieved for the mankind during this period. In spite of several differences such as agricultural landscape in St. Ogg's, and industrialzed metropolitan area of New York, The Mill on the Floss and The House of Mirth are not quite different in their feminist statement. Even though the message of Edith Wharton is clearer, we cannot tell whether there is any progress between The Mill on the Floss and The House of Mirth.