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A Group of Noble Dames
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This collection of short stories by Thomas Hardy presents tales of aristocratic women, narrated by members of an antiquarian club and set in his fictional Wessex. It suits readers of Victorian fiction and those interested in Hardy's shorter works.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
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