Blog updated with a post about how #CharlesDickens and #ThomasHardy used the figures of Lady Dedlock ('Bleak House') and 'Tess' of the D'Urbevilles to look at how women who had children outside of marriage were treated in #VictorianEngland https://bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2023/07/lady-dedlock-from-bleak-house-v-tess.html

A #tree in a #London #cemetery named after the author Thomas Hardy has toppled over. A living link to #VictorianEngland, it was surrounded by 18th- and 19th-century #gravestones and was a popular site for locals and tourists.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/world/europe/hardy-tree-london.html