Griff House.
George Eliot’s home from 1820 to 1841. The house has not been greatly altered. “It was a delightful place to grow up in, and over and above the charms of the house, farm, garden and fields, there was the high road just in front of the gate, where she and her brother stood and watched the mail-coach pass twice a day.” At the back of the house is “a large, old-fashioned farm-house garden, where flowers, vegetables, fruits and trees grow in friendly confusion—just the kind of garden in which Hetty Sorrel gathered red currants.”—Deakin, Early Life of G. E., p. 5, 9. The dairy is known as “Mrs. Poyser’s,” but it was erected after G. Eliot left Griff. The “Round Pond,” into which Maggie Tulliver pushed Lucy and where Maggie and Tom used to fish, is in a field adjoining. Griff Hollows is the “Red Deeps” of the Mill on the Floss.
3. Griff House
Mr. G. H. Osborne
The window of the attic to which Maggie fled when in trouble (Mill on the Floss) is shown on the gable end, where the flagstaff is fixed.
4–5. Griff House
Mr. A. W. Hoare (4)
Mr. S. T. Shipway (5)
6–7. Griff House
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.
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.