George Eliot Adam Bede DINAH MORRIS PRAYS WITH HETY IN PRISON 1892 Antique Print

George Eliot Adam Bede DINAH MORRIS PRAYS WITH HETY IN PRISON 1892 Antique Print


This is an illustration / print that has been taken from a book dated 1902 and is ready for framing. Measures approximately 12 x 9 1/2 inches. There is an image text summary on the attached rice paper
Hetty Sorrel is Mr. Poyser's orphaned niece, who lives and works at the Poyser farm. Her beauty, as described by George Eliot, is the sort which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. Dinah Morris is another orphaned niece of the Poysers. She is also beautiful – It was one of those faces that make one think of white flowers with light touches of colour on their pure petals – but has chosen to become an itinerant Methodist preacher, and dresses very plainly. Adam Bede is a novel written by George Eliot and published in three volumes in 1859. It was the first novel by the English author Mary Ann Evans, who published it pseudonymously. The novel is set