Desperate remedies
Subtitle: a novel
By: Thomas Hardy ; edited with an introduction and notes by Mary Rimmer.
Contributors: Rimmer, Mary.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Subjects: Lady's maids -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; Wessex (England) -- Fiction
Description: When Cytherea discovers that the man she loves is already engaged to his cousin, she is influenced by her employer's steward, and blackmail, murder, and romance ensue.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.