Question
Download Solution PDF________ 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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Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe 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).
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