She eventually marries the father of the baby, Alec, but stabs him when her true love, Angel Clare, returns from Brazil.  
The title character's father is puffed up by news given to him by Parson Tringham in the novel's opening.  Soon after at an afternoon dance in a village in Blackmoor we meet the male protagonist, who does not reappear until the scene shifts to Talbothay's, a dairy farm.  This has happened after the title character has been impregnated by her supposed cousin and sees the death of her child, Sorrow.   She eventually marries the father of the baby, Alec, but stabs him when her true love, Angel Clare, returns from Brazil.  However, she is captured and hanged and thus ends the tale of, FTP, what Thomas Hardy title character?
The title character's father is puffed up by news given to him by Parson Tringham in the novel's opening.  
Tess Durbeyfield or Tess of the D'Urbervilles (prompt on just first name)