The story revolves around four people-Hetty and Arthur love each other secretly, but Hetty is engaged to Adam who is a carpenter. Dinah, a Methodist preacher and also Hetty's cousin, loves Adam but is reluctant to admit her temptation. The story takes an interesting turn when Hetty goes missing just before her wedding to Adam. Then comes the news that Hetty is alive but is being tried for the murder of a child-her own child. Adam is sure of her innocence but is she?
George Eliot
Mary Anne Evans known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure that her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot\'s lifetime, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women\'s writing being limited to lighthearted romances. She also wanted to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. Another factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny, thus avoiding the scandal that would have arisen because of her adulterous relationship with the married George Henry Lewes.
George Eliot
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