Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy - Desperate Remedies is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1871. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe.On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's manipulative steward Manston.Blackmail, murder and romance are among the ingredients of Hardy's first published novel.In its depiction of country life and insight into psychology and sexuality it already bears the unmistakable imprint of Hardy's genius.
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Desperate Remedies
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.
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