The title heroine of a novel subtitled "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented," she meets with great misfortune.
The title heroine of a novel subtitled "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented," she meets with great misfortune. Her family's horse is killed in an accident she causes; she is seduced by Alec --a man sharing her last name -- and her baby dies before it is christened. Her husband, Angel Clare, leaves her when he discovers she is not a virgin, after which she is seduced again by Alec, kills him and is hanged. For ten points, name this tragic Thomas Hardy heroine.
The title heroine of a novel subtitled "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented," she meets with great misfortune.
{Tess of the d’Urbervilles}