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 entangled with two men: the boyish architect, Stephen Smith, and the older literary man, Henry Knight. The former friends become rivals, and Elfride faces an agonizing choice.
Genres
- Elopement
- Elopement in fiction
- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Separation (Psychology)
- Classic Literature
- VFiction
- Fiction, general
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Wessex (england), fiction
- England, fiction
- Courtship
- Architects
- Male friendship
- Social life and customs
- Manners and customs
- Man-woman relationships
- Young women
- Long Now Manual for Civilization
- Didactic fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- Wessex (England) -- Fiction
- Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Elopement -- Fiction
- LITARATURE
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