The Woodlanders (Thomas Hardy, 1887)
From Commonplace Book
Contents
General Notes
- it seems like we come sideways into the main narrative: the central individuals are less important than community and landscape
- 5 pastoral solitude contrasted with communal awareness
- 14 "lifehold" lease on property - perhaps a lower class version of the life interest in property of the wealthy?
Theme Tracking
Reading and Writing
Materiality
Shakespeare references
- 10 "The palm [Marty's] was red and blistering, as if her present occupation were as yet too recent to have subdued it to what it worked in." Sonnet 111, "the dyer's hand"
