[HARDY-Ll] Tess and Sleeping Women

[Rosemarie Morgan]

>Yes- indeed!  One rather heartless critic opined some years ago that Tess 
>falls asleep at all the wrong times. "Wrong" no doubt in terms of 
>judiciousness but "right," nonetheless, for a body driven to exhaustion.

>But the earlier scene, too,
>where her falling asleep results in the death of Prince, is another
>pivotal moment in the book..
>Betty