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Author:
Claire Tomalin
Biography Title:
Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man
Page No.:
126
Researcher:
Jane Hugen-Tobler
Publisher:
Penguin Books
First Published:
n/a
Character:
Bathsheba
Clothing:
Colours:
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Material:
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Quotation:
Description of Bathsheba, she "rides a horse for pleasure, not wearing a riding habit or using a side saddle like Elfride but astride 'in the manner...hardly expected of a woman".
Notes:
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Themes or Symbolism:
Hardy could be addressing ideas relating to the Rational Dress Debate; Bathsheba is an empowered woman, who rides like a man. She is a forerunner of a New Woman of the Fin-de-Siecle.