Scene from Adam Bede by George Eliot, c1885. Artist: William Small

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Scene from Adam Bede by George Eliot, c1885. You may run away from my words, Sir, continued Mrs Poyser. Mrs Poyser, wife of Hetty Sorrel's farmer uncle, Martin Poyser, with Squire Donnithorne, whose son Arthur seduced Hetty. Mrs Poyser is possibly George Eliot's most successful comic character. From Adam Bede by George Eliot. (London, c1885). First published London, 1859.

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