A Pair of Blue Eyes

Description:

Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of his first wife, Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and becomes entangled with two men: the boyish architect, Stephen Smith, and the older literary man, Henry Knight. The former friends become rivals, and Elfride faces an agonizing choice.

subjects: Elopement,  Elopement in fiction,  Fiction,  Triangles (Interpersonal relations),  Separation (Psychology),  Classic Literature,  VFiction,  Fiction, general,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Wessex (england), fiction,  England, fiction,  Courtship,  Architects,  Male friendship,  Social life and customs,  Manners and customs,  Man-woman relationships,  Young women,  Long Now Manual for Civilization,  Didactic fiction,  Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction,  Wessex (England) -- Fiction,  Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction,  Elopement -- Fiction,  LITARATURE

Places: Wessex (England)

Times: 19th century