_Photographed by_ Arbury Farm is on the Arbury Estate. Robert Evans, the novelist’s father, lived there from 1806 to 1820 as land agent to the estate. George Eliot was born here on November 22nd, 1819, but was taken to live at Griff House four months’ later. The farm has been much altered. 1. Arbury Farm, view from garden Miss C. NORTON 2. Arbury Farm, view from garden Mr. G. H. OSBORNE. 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. 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