Adam Bede

Adam Bede
	Title page of the first edition, 1859
Author	George Eliot
Genre	Historical novel
Publisher	John Blackwood
Publication date	1 February 1859
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardback and paperback)
Followed by	The Mill on the Floss

Adam Bede was the first novel by English author George Eliot, first published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since and is regularly used in university studies of 19th-century English literature.^[2]^[3] Eliot described the novel as "a country story full of the breath of cows and scent of hay".

^ Rignall, John (2011). Oxford Reader's Companion to George Eliot. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860422-8. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
^ Oberlin College: The 19th Century Novel Archived 10 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine
^ University of Arizona: Women Mystics and Preachers in Western Tradition Archived 10 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine

[1] Rignall, John (2011). Oxford Reader's Companion to George Eliot. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860422-8. Retrieved 11 September 2022.

[2] Oberlin College: The 19th Century Novel Archived 10 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine

[3] University of Arizona: Women Mystics and Preachers in Western Tradition Archived 10 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine

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