7/6/2023 0 Comments The woodlanders book![]() Grace runs away from him, taking refuge in Giles's hovel. ![]() Fitzpiers returns, having quarrelled with his volatile mistress. George Melbury assaults Fitzpiers, who flees to the continent with Felice. She is a champagne-swilling temptress who wears a wig made out of Marty's hair. They marry, but Fitzpiers takes up with the other outsider in the book, Felice Charmond. Her father thinks she is too good for Giles and Grace is pushed towards the socially superior Edred Fitzpiers. Grace returns from finishing school and is now refined. ![]() When Marty learns of Giles's betrothal she lops off her hair to sell to the local barber. ![]() George Melbury's daughter Grace is promised in marriage to Giles Winterbourne, a stolid timber merchant who is faithfully devoted to her but Giles is adored by Marty South, a young girl who does odd jobs with logs. Plot: This time "Hardy country" is Little Hintock, an isolated and claustrophobic woodland community. ![]()
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