[Hardy-l] Wessex Heights-Terror and Delight in Thomas Hardy

[Betty Cortus]

OK Roy.  Wasn't it Beckett who wrote about  "fair to middling  
women"?  Maybe they were neither blonde nor brunette.
Betty

On Aug 13, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Roy Buckle wrote:

> Yes Betty, one knows what Florence Hardy was supposed to have  
> written to Lady somebody or other
> but it doesn't amount to much more than a mistaken opinion.   You  
> can't get away from the fact that
> Hardy refers to different beings in the two successive stanzas.   
> And what he heard in the train could very well be Henniker's  
> rebuke.   It is possible that Hardy was using
> the description 'fair' descriptively, even perhaps to identify  
> which woman he meant.
> I stick to my guns but thanks for your opinion.

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