· A Pair of Blue Eyes was the third of Hardy’s novels to be published and the first to be serialised, running in Tinsleys’ Magazine from the September of until the July of the following year. It appeared in three-volume form in May , a year after the publication of Under the Greenwood Tree. A Pair of Blue Eyes was Thomas Hardy’s third published novel, written in it was autobiographical, as the heroine Elfride Swancourt is based on Hardy’s first wife Emma Gifford/5. This novel centers on Elfride Swancourt a beautiful young woman with the "blue eyes" that the book alludes to. When she meets a young aspiring architect who is socially inferior but ambitious with potential as he gets older, Stephen Smith she finds that she enjoys the attentions that he gives her and she feels that she is falling in love with him and commits herself to marry him/5().
A Pair of Blue Eyes. Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin. OUP Oxford, - Fiction - pages. 12 Reviews. 'Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.'. Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began the book during the first days of his. A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy's novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and erotic. With settings in Wessex and London, the novel also has some strongly autobiographical features, as the blue-eyed heroine, Elfride Swancourt, is based. A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy. 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.
A Pair of Blue Eyes is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in The book describes the love triangle among a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen Smith is a socially inferior but ambitious young man who adores her and with whom she shares a country background. The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Pair of Blue Eyes, by Thomas Hardy This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. A Pair of Blue Eyes was the third of Hardy’s novels to be published and the first to be serialised, running in Tinsleys’ Magazine from the September of until the July of the following year. It appeared in three-volume form in May , a year after the publication of Under the Greenwood Tree.
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