Scene from Adam Bede by George Eliot, c1885. Hetty Sorrel, beloved of Adam Bede, meeting the young squire Arthur Donnithorne in the woods. Hetty has his child and is convicted of infanticide and condemned to death. Through Donnithorne's intervention the death sentence is commuted to transportation. From Adam Bede by George Eliot. (London, c1885). First published London, 1859.
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