A Wife in London - Thomas Hardy Flashcards
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context - A Wife in London - Thomas Hardy
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written in 1899
born in Dorset but moved to London to be an architect, but later returned to Dorset to become a novelist and poet
set in Victorian London - smog and telegrams
poem alludes to the Boer War - British and Dutch settlers in South Africa. audience relate to the grief. 20,000 British and 25,000 Boer civilians died
split into two parts, the first about a telegram, the second about a letter
