- Elopement, Elopement in fiction, Fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of his first wife, Emma.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- First published
- 1800
- Pages
- 434
- Publisher
- IndyPublish.com, H. Holt and Co., 1st World Library
- Editions
- 91
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781847022370
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“ELFRIDE SWANCOURT was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.”
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored trag
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