The story was adapted as a film, The Mill on the Floss, in 1937, and as a BBC series in 1978 starring Christopher Blake, Pippa Guard, Judy Cornwell, Ray Smith and Anton Lesser.
In 1994, Helen Edmundson adapted the book for the stage, in a production performed by Shared Experience.
A single-episode television adaptation of the novel was first aired on 1 January 1997. Maggie Tulliver is portrayed by Emily Watson and Mr Tulliver by Bernard Hill. The production was filmed at the historic Chatham Dockyard in Kent for exterior street scenes.[7]
A radio dramatisation in five one-hour parts was broadcast on BBC7 in 2009.[8]