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A Group of Noble Dames

by Thomas Hardy

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  1. Preface

    2:26

  2. Dame the First: The First Countess of Wessex (part 1)

    44:48

  3. Dame the First: The First Countess of Wessex (part 2)

    51:48

  4. Dame the Second: Barbara of the House of Grebe (part 1)

    32:01

  5. Dame the Second: Barbara of the House of Grebe (part 2)

    43:27

  6. Dame the Third: The Marchioness of Stonehenge

    33:24

  7. Dame the Fourth: Lady Mottisfont

    35:35

  8. Dame the Fifth: The Lady Icenway

    25:36

  9. Dame the Sixth: Squire Petrick's Lady

    22:51

  10. Dame the Seventh: Anna, Lady Baxby

    15:04

  11. Dame the Eighth: The Lady Penelope

    22:38

  12. Dame the Ninth: The Duchess of Hamptonshire

    30:34

  13. 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.

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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.

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Book facts

First published
1891
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
191
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Libby Gohn