Her first work of fiction was a collection of short stories first published in a magazine in 1857 and later published as a book in 1858 with the title, Scenes of Clerical Life which consisted of three short stories. Another reason for adopting a pen name was that she lived in an era when female writers were not well accepted in the literary world and society, and so she adopted a masculine name to get a more objective critic of her novel.Īdam Bede is George Elliot’s first full-length novel, but when she wrote Adam Bede, she was already a journalist, translator, and critic. George Eliot is a pseudonym for Mary Ann Evans, a female English writer who adopted a pen name because of her desire to keep her personal life private and for critics to judge her novel on its own merits without the influence of her personality. Climax: Adam’s visit to Hetty Sorrel in prison after she confessed to her crime.Setting: The fictional village of Hayslope and its environs in Rural England during the Georgian Era.Genre: Historical Fiction Pastoral Romance.It narrates the love triangles, hopes, and heartaches of the eponymous character Adam Bede, a poor carpenter but held in high esteem in the village for his hard work, integrity, intelligence, and skill Dinah Morris, an altruistic Methodist preacher, gentle but strong-willed Hetty Sorrel an orphan girl living in her uncle’s farm, selfish and vain in the charms of her physical beauty Arthur Donnithorne, a young captain from the gentry, good-humored and pleased in the good opinion the people in the village have of him and Seth Bede, Adam Bede’s brother, also a carpenter but with more fervor for religion than work and with a mild disposition.
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