Hetty has a visitor

Grayscale illustration of a woman in a long dress and bonnet approaching a woman, hair uncovered, sitting on a bench beneath a barred window.

Dinah Morris visits Hetty in jail while she is awaiting her execution for the murder of her (Hetty's) child. Dinah tries to comfort Hetty and gets her to confess to what she did and pray for God's forgivness. (Book 5, Chapter 45).

Merrill, Frank T. (1848-1923)

George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org

1894

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Merrill, Frank T. (1848-1923), Hetty has a visitor, George Eliot Illustrations Gallery, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/83553