Thomas Hardy wrote a book titled Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
Faithfully Presented. The British illustrated journal The Graphic first
published it in a censored and serialized form in 1891. It was later
released in book form in three volumes in 1891 and as a single volume in
1892. Tess of the d'Urbervilles earned unfavorable reviews when it
originally came out, in part because it questioned the sexual standards
of late Victorian England, despite the fact that it is now regarded as a
significant 19th-century English novel and Hardy's masterpiece. Tess was
shown as a champion of both her own and other people's rights. The book
is set in Thomas Hardy's imagined Wessex, a rural area of impoverished
England. The novel is summarized as Tess Durbeyfield and is the story of
a 16-year-old girl who discovers her father is descended from an ancient
Norman family. She drives to market in her father's place, but falls
asleep at the reins; the wagon crashes, and the family's only horse is
killed. Tess gives birth to a frail son the next summer. When Tess is
unable to find a person willing to christen a kid born outside of
marriage.