A Group of Noble Dames

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A Group of Noble Dames (1903)
by Thomas Hardy
334597A Group of Noble Dames1903Thomas Hardy

THOMAS HARDY'S WORKS


THE WESSEX NOVELS
Volume XV.


A GROUP OF NOBLE DAMES

A
Group of Noble Dames


THAT IS TO SAY

THE FIRST COUNTESS OF WESSEX
BARBARA OF THE HOUSE OF GREBE
THE MARCHIONESS OF STONEHENGE
LADY MOTTISFONT
THE LADY ICENWAY
SQUIRE PETRICK'S LADY
ANNA, LADY BAXBY
THE LADY PENELOPE
THE DUCHESS OF HAMPTONSHIRE; AND
THE HONOURABLE LAURA


BY

THOMAS HARDY


WITH A MAP OF WESSEX


'. . . Store of Ladies, whose bright eyes
Rain influence.' L'Allegro.


London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK : THE MACMILLAN COMPANY




First Collected Edition, 1891. New Edition and reprints, 1896-1900.
New Edition, 1903.



Contents[edit]


PART I

BEFORE DINNER


PART II

AFTER DINNER


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1903, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1928, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 95 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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