Preparing for the 2023 George Eliot Chapter-a-Day Read-along: Adam Bede
The 2023 George Eliot Chapter-a-Day Read-along begins in just two days with Eliot’s first novel, Adam Bede. Mary Ann Evans wrote Adam Bede when she was close to 40 years old. She had already been fairly successful as a non-fiction writer, translator, and editor up to that time, but she had resolved to become a novelist. Her first published fiction in book form was a set of three short stories collected in Scenes of Clerical Life. This was also the first time Evans used George Eliot as a...
