A treatise which explores the extent to which music played a role in the literary works of George Eliot. The author concentrates principally on The Mill on the Floss , Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda and argues that music was an indispensable component of each of these works.A brief musical biography; The Mill on the Floss ; Middlemarch ; Daniel Deronda . Appendix: The Maid of Artois .