Word: tess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after publication of Jude the Obscure, Hardy received a letter containing a packet of ashes labeled by an irate reader as the remains of Author Hardy's "iniquitous novel." After the appearance of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, he was sent hundreds of letters from women of Tess-like experience or inclinations, asking advice or justification of their caprices. These letters Hardy ignored as rigorously as he refused to see newspaper interviewers...
...years ago, aged 19. An art student, Author Spencer paints "strange and surprising landscapes, which are the admiration of her friends," designed the jacket for her own book. She knows more artists than writers, reads few modern writers, has never read Thomas Hardy, to whose Tess of the D'Urbervilles her book has been compared...