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George Eliot (1819-1880), whose
real name was Mary Anne Evans, adopted a male pseudonym, because woman writers
were taken less seriously in her time. Moreover, she did not greatly care for
the typical kind of fiction ‘lady novelists’ produced. She has always been
one of the best known Victorian authors, second only to Dickens, but superior
to him in psychological insight. Adam Bede was Eliot's first novel. The novel’s hero, Adam Bede, is a carpenter in the village of Hayslope. He is in love with Hetty Sorrel, a girl living with her uncle, the farmer Poyser. Hetty is more attracted to Arthur Donnithorne, the grandson of the Squire who owns the village. |
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Adam is a loyal member of the Church
of England, but his brother Seth is a Methodist. Seth is in love with Dinah
Morris, Hetty’s cousin, a Methodist lay preacher. This is the rural setting that charmed Eliot’s early readers. They overlooked the dramatic events later in the novel, when Hetty suddenly disappears... please inform me when this book comes out
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