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Showing 311 to 320 of 364 references, ordered by Reference number (ascending)
Reference No. 317: "Description of the Mixen Lane residents. “Their hands were mostly kept in their pockets; they w..."
| Quotation: | Description of the Mixen Lane residents. “Their hands were mostly kept in their pockets; they wore a leather strap round their hips or knees, and boots that required a great deal of lacing but never seemed to get any”. |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Novel or Poem Volume Title: | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Page No.: | 206 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Boots; |
| Accessories: | |
| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 318: "“Meanwhile Elizabeth-Jane, in an upper room no larger than the prophet’s chamber, and with th..."
| Quotation: | “Meanwhile Elizabeth-Jane, in an upper room no larger than the prophet’s chamber, and with the silk attire of her palmy days packed away in a box...”. |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Novel or Poem Volume Title: | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Page No.: | 210 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | |
| Accessories: | |
| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 319: "“And why shouldn't I do it again?" But he looked a far different journeyman from the one
he ha..."
| Quotation: | “And why shouldn't I do it again?" But he looked a far different journeyman from the one he had been in his earlier days. Then he had worn clean suitable clothes, light and cheerful in hue; leggings yellow as marigolds, corduroys immaculate as new flax, and a neckerchief like a flower-garden. Now he wore the remains of an old blue cloth suit of his gentlemanly times, a rusty silk hat, and a once black satin stock, soiled and shabby. Clad thus he went to and fro, still comparatively an active man-for he was not much over forty-and saw with the other men in the yard Donald Farfrae going in and out the green door that led to the garden, and the big house, and Lucetta”. |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Novel or Poem Volume Title: | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Page No.: | 211 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Breeches; Leggings; Neckwear; Hat; |
| Accessories: | |
| Colours: | Yellow, Blue, Brown |
Reference No. 320: "A very worried Lucetta confronts Henchard. “She selected--as much from want of spirit as design..."
| Quotation: | A very worried Lucetta confronts Henchard. “She selected--as much from want of spirit as design--her poorest, plainest, and longest discarded attire. To avoid the contingency of being recognized she veiled herself, and slipped out of the house quickly”. |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Novel or Poem Volume Title: | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Page No.: | 231 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Veil; |
| Accessories: | |
| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 321: "In Mixen Lane. “Walking along the lane at dusk the stranger was struck by two or three peculiar..."
| Quotation: | In Mixen Lane. “Walking along the lane at dusk the stranger was struck by two or three peculiar features therein. [...] Another was the frequency of white aprons over dingy gowns among the women around the doorways. A white apron is a suspicious venture in situations where spotlessness is difficult: moreover the industry and cleanliness which the white apron expressed were belied by the postures and gaits of the women who wore it...”. (Mixen lane) |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Novel or Poem Volume Title: | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Page No.: | 237 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Dress; Apron; |
| Accessories: | |
| Colours: | White |
Reference No. 322: "“They followed him into the inn, where the increased light exhibited him as one who would stand..."
| Quotation: | “They followed him into the inn, where the increased light exhibited him as one who would stand higher in an estimate by the eye than in one by the ear. He was dressed with a certain clumsy richness—his coat being furred, and his head covered by a cap of seal-skin, which, though the nights were chilly, must have been warm for the daytime, spring being somewhat advanced. In his hand he carried a small mahogany case, strapped, and clamped with brass”. |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Novel or Poem Volume Title: | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Page No.: | 241 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Coat; Cap; |
| Accessories: | Case; |
| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 323: "
“...Henchard entered the room, in clothes of frayed and threadbare shabbiness--the very cloth..."
| Quotation: | “...Henchard entered the room, in clothes of frayed and threadbare shabbiness--the very clothes which he had used to wear in the primal days when he had sat among them”. (Henchard approaches--to which he no longer belongs-- the council in old attire) |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Novel or Poem Volume Title: | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Page No.: | 243 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | |
| Accessories: | |
| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 324: "People arriving to see the royal visit. “Visitors soon began to flock in from country houses, v..."
| Quotation: | People arriving to see the royal visit. “Visitors soon began to flock in from country houses, villages, remote copses and lonely uplands, the latter in oiled boots and tilt-bonnets to see the reception...there was hardly a workman in the town who did not put a clean shirt on”. |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Novel or Poem Volume Title: | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Page No.: | 243 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Shirt; Boots; Fashion Bonnet; |
| Accessories: | |
| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 326: "Elizabeth observes Henchard’s movements the day of the Royal visit.
“...he elbowed his way t..."
| Quotation: | Elizabeth observes Henchard’s movements the day of the Royal visit. “...he elbowed his way through the gay throng to the shop of Woolfrey the draper. [...] In a few minutes he emerged, wearing, to her surprise, a brilliant rosette, while, more surprising, still, in his hand he carried a flag, of somewhat homely construction, formed by tacking one of the small union-jacks, which abounded in the town to-day, to the end of a deal-wand--probably the roller from a piece of calico”. |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Novel or Poem Volume Title: | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Page No.: | 245 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | |
| Accessories: | Rosette, flag; |
| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 327: "The Royal visit and Farfrae as Mayor. “But he was far from attractive to a woman’s eye, ruled..."
| Quotation: | The Royal visit and Farfrae as Mayor. “But he was far from attractive to a woman’s eye, ruled as that is so largely by the superficies of things. He was not only a journeyman, unable to appear as he formerly had appeared, but he disdained to appear as well as he might. Everybody else, from the mayor to the washer-woman, shone in new vesture according to means; but Henchard had doggedly retained the fretted and weather-beaten garments of bygone years. Hence, alas, this occurred: Lucetta’s eyes slid over him to this side and to that without anchoring his features--as gaily dressed women’s eyes will too often do on such occasions. Her manner signified quite plainly that she meant to know him in public no more. But she was never tired of watching Donald, as he stood in animated converse with his friends a few yards off, wearing round his neck the official gold chain with great square links like that round the royal unicorn". |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Novel or Poem Volume Title: | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Page No.: | 245-6 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Chain; |
| Accessories: | |
| Colours: | Gold |
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