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Adam Bede

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Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. [1]

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Adam Bede

Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859.

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Adam Bede (film)

Adam Bede is a 1918 British silent drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Bransby Williams, Ivy Close and Malvina Longfellow.

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Anne Mozley

Anne Mozley (1809–1891) was an English author Albert Frederick Pollard.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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BBC Radio 4 Extra

BBC Radio 4 Extra is a British digital radio station broadcasting archive repeats of comedy, drama and documentary programmes nationally, 24 hours a day.

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Bransby Williams

Bransby Williams (born Bransby William Pharez; 14 August 1870 – 3 December 1961) was a British actor, comedian and monologist.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Crawford Logan

Crawford Logan is a British actor best known for his work in radio.

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Debut novel

A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes.

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Dinah Morris

Dinah Morris is a major character in George Eliot's novel Adam Bede (1859); a Methodist lay preacher, she was modelled on Eliot's aunt Elizabeth Evans.

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Flanders

Flanders (Vlaanderen, Flandre, Flandern) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium, although there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, language, politics and history.

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Genre painting

Genre painting, also called genre scene or petit genre, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities.

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George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Ann" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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Henry James

Henry James, OM (–) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

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Hetty Sorrel

Hetty Sorrel is a major character in George Eliot's novel Adam Bede (1859).

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Iain Glen

Iain Glen (born 24 June 1961) is a Scottish film, television, and stage actor.

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Ivy Close

Ivy Close (15 June 1890 – 4 December 1968) was a British actress.

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James Wilby

James Jonathon Wilby (born 20 February 1958) is an English film, television and theatre actor.

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John Blackwood (publisher)

John Blackwood FRSE (1818–1879) was a Scottish publisher, sixth son of William Blackwood.

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Julia McKenzie

Julia Kathleen Nancy McKenzie, CBE (born 17 February 1941) is an English actress, singer, presenter, and theatre director.

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Katherine Igoe

Katherine Igoe is an Irish actress.

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Lyrical Ballads

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.

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Mario Praz

Mario Praz KBE (September 6, 1896, Rome – March 23, 1982, Rome) was an Italian-born critic of art and literature, and a scholar of English literature.

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Masterpiece (TV series)

Masterpiece (formerly known as Masterpiece Theatre) is a drama anthology television series produced by WGBH Boston.

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Maurice Elvey

Maurice Elvey (11 November 1887 – 28 August 1967) was the most prolific film director in British history.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Misogyny

Misogyny is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls.

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Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio.

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Patsy Kensit

Patricia Jude Francis Kensit (born 4 March 1968) is an English actress, singer, model, and former child star.

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Penal transportation

Penal transportation or transportation refers to the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony for a specified term; later, specifically established penal colonies became their destination.

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Rector (ecclesiastical)

A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations.

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Squire

Starting in the Middle Ages, a squire was the shield- or armour-bearer of a knight.

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Susannah Harker

Susannah Harker (born) is an English film, television, and theatre actor.

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The Athenaeum (British magazine)

The Athenaeum was a literary magazine published in London, England from 1828 to 1921.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Oxford Companion to English Literature

The Oxford Companion to English Literature first published in 1932, edited by the retired diplomat Sir Paul Harvey (1869–1948), was the earliest of the Oxford Companions to appear.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Theatre Royal, Edinburgh

Four theatre buildings in Edinburgh have borne the name Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, though the final three were all rebuildings of the second.

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University of Arizona

The University of Arizona (also referred to as U of A, UA, or Arizona) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Bede

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