Miss M. IMISON (6)
Mr. A. W. HOARE (7)
8. Griff House, dairy
Mr. A. W. HOARE
9. Griff House, dairy, interior
Mr. L. P. WILSON
The Dairy is known as "Mrs. Poyser's," but it was erected after G. Eliot
left Griff.
10. Griff House, garden seat
Mr. A. H. HOWELL
The little summer house at the end of the Yew-tree walk; in just such
a place Dorothea found her husband after his death.
--(_Middlemarch_).
11. Griff House, round pond
Mr. S. T. SHIPWAY
The pool into which Maggie Tulliver pushed Lucy, and where Maggie and Tom
used to fish, is in a field adjoining the house.
12. Griff Hollows
Mr. L. P. WILSON
13. Griff Hollows
Miss M. IMISON
The "Red Deeps" of _The Mill on the Floss_, the meeting place of Maggie
Tulliver and Philip Wakem.
George Eliot's Schooldays.
14. Griff, the Dame School
Mr. A. W. HOARE
George Eliot's first school, which she attended with her brother until
she was five years old. Her second school (Miss Lathom's Boarding School
at Attleborough) has not been identified.
15-16. Nuneaton, The Elms
Miss C. NORTON
George Eliot's third school, near Nuneaton Church. She attended it with
her sister Chrissy until 1832, when she went to Coventry.
17. Coventry, house of Rev. Francis Franklin, Cow Lane
Mr. S. T. SHIPWAY
In 1832 was transferred from The Elms, Nuneaton, to a school in Coventry,
kept by the two Miss Franklins, daughters of The Rev. Francis Franklin,
Minister of Cow Lane Chapel. Mr. Franklin was the prototype of Rufus
Lyon (_Felix Holt_).
18. Coventry, back of minister's house, Cow Lane
Mr. S. T. SHIPWAY
19. Coventry, memorial tablet to Rev. Francis Franklin, Cow Lane Chapel
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