75. Water colour drawing--Chilvers Coton church, by Thomas Wakeman.

Lent by Nuneaton Art Gallery.

76. Water colour drawing--South Farm, Arbury, by Thomas Wakeman.

Lent by Nuneaton Art Gallery.

76. Series of photographs of G. Eliot country.

Lent by Miss Robinson, Chilvers Coton.

PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY
OF
GEORGE ELIOT'S WARWICKSHIRE
BY MEMBERS OF THE
COVENTRY PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.

Arbury, South Farm.

_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