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: Hetty Sorrel, sentenced to death for infanticide

Hetty Sorrel, sentenced to death for infanticide

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 circa 1885

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1843-1929 Bede Comforted Commuted Cousin Dinah Eliot Hetty Infanticide Intervention Methodist Preacher Seducer Sentence Sentenced Sorrel

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