The woodlanders sparknotes6/2/2023 Jude, in the novel named for him, is torn between two women, Sue and Arabella, of very different temperaments and backgrounds, and he is trapped by deceit into marriage with Arabella. Angel Clare in Tess is also allied to a comparatively simple country girl, and like Raye he finds on his wedding day that an important fact about their relationship has been kept from him. Like Raye in "On the Western Circuit," Fitzpiers in The Woodlanders is a professional man with metropolitan interests who is caught between a country girl, although Grace is better educated than Anna, and a more sophisticated woman. There are also particular points of resemblance. Misalliance, of temperaments and education. With each of these works it shares the same theme of marriage and the alliance, or It comes just before Jude the Obscure, conceived, according to Hardy himself, from 1887 to 1890, written from 1893 to 1894, and published in 1895. In Hardy's career it thus comes after the novels The Woodlanders, which was completed and published in February 1887, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles, completed in October 1890 and published in 1891. "On the Western Circuit," which is dated autumn 1891, was collected in Thomas Hardy's 1894 volume of short stories Life's Little Ironies.
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