![]() ![]() The story, set in the Midlands, involved a confession made to the aunt of a child’s murder by a girl in prison. The novel is set in the late 18th century and the author described it as ‘A country story full of the breath of cow and scent of hay.’Īccording to the Oxford Companion to English Literature (1967), ‘the plot is founded upon a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher who was the model for the character Dinah Morris in the novel’. She used a male soubriquet in order that her fiction was judged separately from her other writings and, more particularly, she wanted to escape the belief that all women’s fiction was limited to lighted-hearted romances. George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880) who was known as a journalist, poet and translator before she wrote Adam Bede (1859), the first of her seven novels. That is what I undertake for you, reader.’ ‘With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. Published in 1859, Adam Bede was the first novel by Mary Ann Evans, written under her pen name George Eliot. ![]()
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