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Thomas Hardy

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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. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and becomes …

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Desperate Remedies is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously by Tinsley Brothers in 1871.