________ read Adam Bede with such pleasure that she not only keenly recommended it to her relatives but also commissioned two paintings of scenes from the novel.

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Answer 1

The correct answer is "Queen Victoria"

Key Points

Adam Bede is the first novel by George Eliot published in 1859.
The novel is concerned with the theme of motherhood.
The novel follows concerns the lives of four characters in the fictional community of Hayslope in 1799.
Adam is the central character among these four characters in the novel.
According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1967), "the plot is founded on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, and the original of Dinah Morris of the novel, of a confession of child-murder, made to her by a girl in prison".
Queen Victoria highly appreciated this novel and introduced it to Prince Albert and other relatives.
In May 1860, Queen Victoria commissioned Edward Conbould to paint two scenes from the book.

Therefore, the correct answer is "option 2".

Important Points

Mary Ann Evans known by her pen name George Eliot is an important 19th-century women writer.
She was also a poet, journalist, and translator.
She wrote seven novels:
- Adam Bede (1859)
- The Mill on the Floss (1860)
- Silas Marner (1861)
- Romola (1862–63)
- Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)
- Middlemarch (1871–72)
- Daniel Deronda (1876).