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The Woodlanders is a novel by Thomas Hardy. The novel is set between 1856 and 1858. It was serialised from 15 May 1886 to 9 April 1887 in Macmillan's Magazine and published in three volumes in 1887. It is one of his series of Wessex novels.
Within The Woodlanders there are forests and glens of mysterious beauty that Hardy brings to life. The plot sits at the real beginnings of class fluidity. A country girl is made into a sophisticated lady through education rather than birth.
Dec 9, 2020 · The Woodlanders [1887] - ★★★★★ In this novel, Grace, an impressionable, recently-educated girl, “who has been around cultivated folks” arrives home to a small village of Little Hintock after a long absence and to the delight of her father Mr Melbury, a timber merchant.
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The Woodlanders, novel by Thomas Hardy, published serially in Macmillan’s Magazine from 1886 to 1887 and in book form in 1887. The work is a pessimistic attack on a society that values high status and socially sanctioned behaviour over good character and honest emotions.
The Woodlanders is an 1887 novel by British author Thomas Hardy. In it, Grace Melbury, daughter of timber merchant George, returns to her local village of Little Hintock after time away at boarding school.
Apr 26, 2024 · Introduction. By 1887, when The Woodlanders appeared, Thomas Hardy, approaching 50, was regarded as the most influential novelist of Victorian England. A gifted storyteller, Hardy...
