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Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire

Thomas Hardy

  • 221 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1872
  • 425 editions
  • Free to read
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1 About this book

Under the Greenwood Tree is the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dewey, and the attractive new school mistress, Fancy Day. A pleasant romantic tale set in the Victorian era, Under the Greenwood Tree is one of Thomas Hardy's most gentle and pastoral novels.

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  • Relationships
  • Romance
  • Historical fiction
  • Courtship
  • Teachers
  • Musicians
  • Women teachers
  • Women teachers in fiction

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3 About Thomas Hardy

1840–1928

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.

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