A Group of Noble Dames: Ten Wessex Ladies, Told by a Field Club
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Ten portraits of Wessex ladies of the old families, told by antiquaries at a club meeting: a woman who marries her groom, one who buys a husband, one who prefers the man's letters to the man. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; he took these from parish registers and county histories, and the magazine editors cut them heavily — the ladies do things that were not supposed to be printed. Fifty-five landscape plates by painters including Paul Sandby and George Morland, from harbours and castles to harvest fields, extend the antiquarian Wessex of the tales into the wider British scene.
Ten portraits of Wessex ladies of the old families, told by antiquaries at a club meeting: a woman who marries her groom, one who buys a husband, one who prefers the man's letters to the man. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; he took these from parish registers and county histo...
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Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. Born in Dorset, he worked as an architect in London before returning to the region to write, setting much of his fiction in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. His works include A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Woodlanders, Under the Greenwood Tree, and the story collections Wessex Tales and Life's Little Ironies.
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. Born in Dorset, he worked as an architect in London before returning to the region to write, setting much of his fiction in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. His works include A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Woodlanders, Under the Greenwood T...
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