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A Group of Noble Dames

First published: 1891
Pages: 191

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Preface
2:26
Dame the First: The First Countess of Wessex (part 1)
44:48
Dame the First: The First Countess of Wessex (part 2)
51:48
Dame the Second: Barbara of the House of Grebe (part 1)
32:01
Dame the Second: Barbara of the House of Grebe (part 2)
43:27
Dame the Third: The Marchioness of Stonehenge
33:24
Dame the Fourth: Lady Mottisfont
35:35
Dame the Fifth: The Lady Icenway
25:36
Dame the Sixth: Squire Petrick's Lady
22:51
Dame the Seventh: Anna, Lady Baxby
15:04
Dame the Eighth: The Lady Penelope
22:38
Dame the Ninth: The Duchess of Hamptonshire
30:34
Dame the Tenth: The Honourable Laura
52:13

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On a rainy afternoon the members of an antiquarian club pass the time by telling one another the histories of aristocratic women from the Wessex of a century or two before. Thomas Hardy strings ten of these tales together, each narrated by a different member, from a local historian to a country surgeon. The dames face forced marriages, buried secrets, and the narrow choices open to women of rank, and Hardy relates their fates with irony and a keen sense of how the past presses on the present. Published in 1891, the collection shows his gift for the compact, fateful story. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available to download.

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet whose fiction, set in a half-imagined Wessex, probed fate, class, and the constraints of Victorian society. His major novels are cornerstones of English literature.