num_pages: 448
description: The tale of an opportunistic yet ultimately loyal adventuress who begins life humbly and ends as the wife of a rakish aristocrat, THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA will surprise readers of Thomas Hardy's more familiar, and darker, Wessex novels. Hardy combines elements of domestic melodrama and drawing-room farce with calculated irreverence for literary form. 11 illustrations.
language: English
title: The Hand of Ethelberta
titlecomplete: The Hand of Ethelberta
characters: Lord Mountclere, Ethelberta, Lady Petherwin
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, English Literature, British Literature, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Victorian
ratings_count: 3575
publisher: Everyman