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Tess of the D’Urbervilles 249
5. For a brief but enlightening review of Hardy’s revisions of Tess
in manuscript (now in the British Museum), see the relevant
chapter in Wallace Hildick, Word for Word: A Study of Authors’
Alterations, London: Faber and Faber, 1965, pp. 109–25.
6. Martin Green, Science and the Shabby Curate of Poetry, New
York: Norton, 1965, p. 82; London: Longman, 1964.
7. Herschberger, p. 27.
8. Herschberger, pp. 42, 76, with accompanying footnotes
provenancing Amram Scheinfeld’s Women and Men.
9. De Beauvoir, p. 685.
10. I would maintain this despite the minor theme of the snobbery
of the senior Clares—‘she is a lady, nevertheless—in feeling
and nature’, Angel objects to his mother of Tess, and again,
‘Distinction does not consist in the facile use of a contemptible
set of conventions, but in being numbered among those who
are true, and honest . . . ’, etc. Others have preceded Hardy here.
11. Cp. ‘WSPers [members of Women Strike for Peace], wearing
Vietnamese “coolie” hats made of newspaper, bearing black
flowers and signs and tolling small bells, marched down
Broadway reminding passers-by that “We’re all POWs”.’ WSP
Peaceletter, vol. II, no. 9, October, 1971.
13. Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape, New York: Dell, 1969, p. 63;
London: Corgi, 1969.
14. Margaret Mead, Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive
Societies, London: Routledge, 1935, pp, xix–xx.
15. Herschberger, p. 139.
16. De Beauvoir, p. 56.
17. Herschberger, p. 9.
18. De Beauvoir, p. 683.
19. Ibid., p. 253.
20. The classic pro-Lawrentian view on these matters, one which
takes all the posturing at face value and reduces it to exposition,
must be read to be believed: Mark Spilka, The Love Ethic of D.
H. Lawrence, Indiana University Press, 1955. It is studied in
university courses.
21. De Beauvoir, p. 367.
22. Lydon, pp. 226–7.
23. ‘BOYCOTT ALL Newsstands Selling Pornography’, Woman’s
World, 15 April, 1971, p. 1.