Brother and Sister
Title
Brother and Sister
Alt Text Description
Grayscale illustration of a boy handing a fishing rod to a young girl sitting on a bank of grass on a canal.
Description
The narrator’s brother teaches her to fish.
This illustration was published with the "Brother and Sister" sonnet series, but it may also reference a strikingly similar scene in Eliot's earlier work,The Mill on the Floss, where Tom teaches Maggie to fish.
This illustration was published with the "Brother and Sister" sonnet series, but it may also reference a strikingly similar scene in Eliot's earlier work,The Mill on the Floss, where Tom teaches Maggie to fish.
Illustrator
Merrill, Frank T. (1848-1923)
Publisher
George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org
Date
1894
Rights
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Work Illustrated
"Brother and Sister" sonnet sequence (Poetry)
Citation
Merrill, Frank T. (1848-1923), Brother and Sister, George Eliot Illustrations Gallery, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/83552
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