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. 'Adam Bede' by George Eliot, first published 1859. Illustration by William Small (1843-1929) from an edition published c1885.

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