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This tale of an opportunistic yet ultimately loyal adventuress, who begins life humbly and ends as the wife of a rakish aristocrat, will surprise readers of Hardy’s more familiar, and darker, Wessex novels. "The Hand of Ethelberta is … a portrait of two artists – Ethelberta Petherwin and Thomas Hardy …" —Tim Dolin