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The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters (Penguin Classics)
 
 
The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
by Thomas Hardy (Author), Tim Dolin (Editor), George Du Maurier (Illustrator), Patricia Ingham (Preface) "Young Mrs. Petherwin stepped from the door of an old though popular inn in a Wessex town to take a country walk ..." (more)
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Product details
  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (31 Jul 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140435026
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140435023
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.4 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 281,978 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The novel (1876) follows the fortunes of Ethelberta, one of the numerous family of Chicherel, a butler. She marries the son of the house where she is governess, only to be widowed by the time she is 21, but attempts to retain her social position, while concealing her relationship to the butler. Finally, she marries a wicked old peer, while her faithful admirer, the musician Christopher Julian, is left to marry her sister Picotee. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Synopsis
Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London with her family acting incognito as her servants. Turning the male-dominated literary world to her advantage, she happily exploits the attentions of four very different suitors. Will she bestow her hand upon the richest of them, or on the man she loves? Ethelberta Petherwin, alias Berta Chickerel, moves with easy grace between her multiple identities, cleverly managing a tissue of lies to aid her meteoric rise. In "The Hand of Ethelberta" (1876), Hardy drew on conventions of popular romances, illustrated weeklies, plays, fashion plates and even his wife's diary in this comic story of a woman in control of her destiny.

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