A Group of Noble Dames
by Thomas Hardy
- First published
- 1891
- Reading level
- Plain English
- Price
- Free
About the book
"A Group of Noble Dames" by Thomas Hardy is a collection of short stories published in 1891. Ten members of a club gather to share tales of aristocratic women from the 17th and 18th centuries. Each storyteller—from a local historian to a surgeon to a churchwarden—reveals the dramatic lives and fates of these noble ladies. Framed as an evening's entertainment, the collection blends romance, tragedy, and the complexities of upper-class society across two centuries of English history.
- Wessex (England)
- Nobility
- Women
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #3049. A Group of Noble Dames on Wikipedia.
