Adam Bede
Americannoun
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St Ogg’s in The Mill on the Floss was partly modelled on Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, while Hayslope in Adam Bede is Ellastone, the Staffordshire village where Eliot’s father had lived as a young man.
From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2019
Trying to do a one-to-one comparison of say, Adam Bede or Sense and Sensibility with The Great Gatsby or To Kill a Mockingbird is impossible.
From New York Times • May 30, 2014
When Simone inadvertently discovered that George Eliot's unmarried heroine in Adam Bede was pregnant, she hid the book so Mama would not be horrified at her knowledge.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Through much of her career, the author of Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch commanded great critical and public esteem.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This dog is our friend Gyp, who emerges on several occasions through Adam Bede.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney
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