Thomas Hardy was a feminist, a great sympathiser with the fate of fallen women, hence Tess of the D'Uurbevilles' a young innocent country girl, be spoiled by and spurned by her husband for the sin of rape, by a distant cousin, pure as the morning but in Victorian days, marriage demanded virgins, but not so fit the male? ?
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Thomas Hardy was a feminist, a great sympathiser with the fate of fallen women, hence Tess of the D'Uurbevilles' a young innocent country girl, be spoiled by and spurned by her husband for the sin of rape, by a distant cousin, pure as the morning but in Victorian days, marriage demanded virgins, but not so fit the male? ?
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