1-158-812 - Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage-Images

Scene from Adam Bede by George Eliot, c1885. Slowly, while Dinah was speaking, Hetty rose, took a step forward, and was clasped in Dinah's arms. Hetty Sorrel, sentenced to death for infanticide, comforted in prison by her Methodist preacher cousin, Dinah Morris. Hetty's sentence is commuted to transportation through the intervention of her seducer Arthur Donnithorne. From Adam Bede by George Eliot. (London, c1885). First published London, 1859.