Another of his title characters travels to claim kinship with an aristocratic family but is raped by Alec in the woods.
A fiddling man in one novel by this author soothes a bull by playing a nativity hymn, and that man is among the workers who sing to increase milk yield on the dairy farm of Richard Crick. The drowning of two lovers in another of this man's works leads Thomasin to marry Diggory Venn. A blind diamond merchant becomes a preacher in his novel featuring Eustacia Vye and Clym Yeobright. Another of his title characters travels to claim kinship with an aristocratic family but is raped by Alec in the woods. That woman marries Angel Clare and is hanged after stabbing Alec. For 10 points, name this author of The Return of the Native and Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
A fiddling man in one novel by this author soothes a bull by playing a nativity hymn, and that man is among the workers who sing to increase milk yield on the dairy farm of Richard Crick.
Thomas Hardy