A stage performer passes as a lady and juggles suitors to secure her family's future. Hardy's atypical social comedy.
Books mentioned in The Hand of Ethelberta (3)
Paradise Lost by John Milton: “Ethelberta drew from her pocket a small edition of Milton, and proposed that she should read a few lines from 'Paradise Lost.'”
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “But you would not have wished that "Romeo and Juliet" should have ended happily, or that Othello should have discovered the perfidy of his Ancient in time to prevent all fatal consequences?”
The Shortest Way with the Dissenters by Daniel Defoe: “just as there was once written a terribly stinging one, "The Shortest Way with the Dissenters," which had a great effect.”