A Pair of Blue Eyes
About this book
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
- architects
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- classic literature
- courtship
- didactic fiction
- elopement
- elopement -- fiction
- elopement in fiction
- england, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, general
- litarature
- long now manual for civilization
- male friendship
- manners and customs
- man-woman relationships
- separation (psychology)
- separation (psychology) -- fiction
- social life and customs
- triangles (interpersonal relations)
- triangles (interpersonal relations) -- fiction
- vfiction
- wessex (england) -- fiction
- wessex (england), fiction
- young women