His best known novel, Tess Of The D Urbervilles describes the unjust punishment meted out to a young milkmaid driven to murder by her brutal treatment at the hands of a playboy aristocrat.
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In her disillusioned later years Thomas Hardy’s first wife, Emma, bitterly reflected: ‘He understands only the women he invents – the others not at all.’ In Hardy Women, Paula Byrne sets out to recover the stories of the women in his life ‘who did not have a voice and who were often deliberately omitted from