Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Caster bridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure. He was exceedingly critical of Victorian society, particularly on the declining status of rural individuals in Britain, like those from his native South West England. He Victorian realist within the convention of George Eliot, he was impacted both in his books and in his verse by Romanticism, including the verse of William Wordsworth.
Hardy was stunned by the destruction caused by First World War. He was nominated another time for the prize 11 years afterward.
Her unrequited suitor Christopher Julian realises he would never have been happy with her had she married him, and settles for her younger sister Picotee who had been in love with him for years.In 1910, Hardy had been appointed a Member of the Order of Merit and was too for the first time nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She finally elects for Lord Mountclere, after he discovers the secret of her low birth and family, and she comes to dominate him, running his estate and saving him from bankruptcy. Ladywell, both gentlemen and friends, and Lord Mountclere, a 65-year old aristocrat with a dubious past, but is reluctant to give her much-coveted hand. Christopher Julian (a struggling musician), Mr. Beautiful, clever, and rational, she easily attracts four very persistent suitors (Mr.
The events of the story concern Ethelberta's career as a famous poet and storyteller as she struggles to support her family and conceal her secret-that her father is a butler. In the three years that have elapsed since the deaths of both her husband and father-in-law, Ethelberta has been treated to foreign travel and further privilege by her benefactress, but restricted from seeing her poor family. Her husband died two weeks after the wedding and, now twenty-one, Ethelberta lives with her mother-in-law, Lady Petherwin. Plot summary Īt the beginning of the book, it is told that Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but, through her work as a governess, married well at the age of eighteen. The late nineteenth century novelist George Gissing, who knew Hardy, considered it "surely old Hardy's poorest book". Unlike the majority of Hardy's fiction, the novel is a comedy, with both humour and a happy ending for the major characters and no suicides or tragic deaths. It was written, in serial form, for The Cornhill Magazine, which was edited by Leslie Stephen, a friend and mentor of Hardy's. The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1876.
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