A Group of Noble Dames

A Group of Noble Dames is a collection of short stories written by Thomas Hardy. The stories are contained by a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or 18th century. All ten stories were published in serial magazines before Hardy collected them into book form. "e;The Duchess of Hamptonshire"e; and "e;The Honourable Laura"...