lineage

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

distinction of social class

Thomas Hardy

Tess Durbeyfield

Mrs. Joan Durbeyfield

Mr. John Durbeyfield

mothers

fathers

family traits

pedigree

ancestry

poverty

″‘Pooh – I have as much of mother as father in me!’ she said. ‘All my prettiness comes from her, and she was only a dairymaid.‘”

“Pedigree, ancestral skeletons, monumental record, the D’Urberville lineaments, did not help Tess in her life’s battle as yet, even to the extent of attracting to her a dancing-partner over the heads of the commonest peasantry.”

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