Set in a world that rivals Balzac and Dickens, English novelist Thomas Hardy's first Wessex novel focuses on life in a rural area, rather than on life in the ...
Ethelberta Chickerel uses marriage to elevate herself from a family of servants and workmen, onto a life of writing, poetry, and storytelling among high int...
Hardy distrusted the application of 19th Century empiricism to history because he felt that it marginalized important human elements. In this tale of a woman ...