Notes to Thomas Hardy's 'The Woodlanders'

NOTES ON Thomas Hardy's THE WOODLANDERS These are expansions on my own notes and queries on reading the novel. Some merely explain the meaning of words that are unusual to us - for more of this consult the relevant York Notes . Some pick up references and allusions which are not dealt with in the eds. notes to the Penguin edn. Some take issue with the eds. notes. The amount of space I spend on a …

…aders are expected to grasp a mention of, for example, stripped-pine furniture. Versaille was the residence of the French king prior to the revolution of 1789. I take it that the reference connotes artificiality, pretence, showiness. 44) 397-3 febrifuge. Medicine to reduce fever - derivatively, a cooling drink. 47) 428-1 caught in a trap. I just don't believe that this could happen to someone caught in a man-trap. Just look at a picture of one of those things!