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 Mr. S. T. SHIPWAY 20. Bust of George Whitfield, at one time in Mr. Franklin’s house Mr. A. W. HOARE “A black bust with a coloured face, which for some reason or other was covered with green gauze.” “That,” said Mr. Lyon, “is the eminent George Whitfield . . . Providence ordained that the good man should squint; and my daughter has not yet learned to bear with this infirmity.”—_Felix Holt_, ch. v. 21. Coventry, Nantglyn, Warwick Row Mr. S. T. SHIPWAY The Misses Franklin’s school was at this address. George Eliot left this school in 1835. George Eliot’s Coventry Home and Circle. In March, 1841, Robert Evans and his daughter came to live in the Foleshill Road, until her father died in 1849. The house is known as Bird Grove, and has been much altered. 22. Coventry, Bird Grove Mr. S. T. SHIPWAY 22a. Coventry, gates of Bird Grove Mr. J. BRADBURY 23. Coventry, Bird Grove, window of George Eliot’s study over entrance Mr. A. W. HOARE 24–25. Coventry, Bird Grove, study and bedroom Mr. A. W. HOARE (24) Mr. S. T. SHIPWAY (25) 26. Coventry, Bird Grove, room used by G. Eliot as drawing room Mr. S. T. SHIPWAY