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Author:
Claire Tomalin
Biography Title:
Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man
Page No.:
212
Researcher:
Jane Hugen-Tobler
Publisher:
Penguin Books
First Published:
n/a
Character:
Tess
Clothing:
Colours:
n/a
Material:
n/a
Quotation:
When in London, Hardy remarked "looking at the expensively dressed ladies at a dinner party, 'if put into rough wrappers in a turnip field where would their beauty be?' The difference with Tess is that her beauty does not dim according to her clothing."