| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Given the Tess connection, one wonders about the ending.) All of the novel's other primary female characters are desperate for male companionship, weak, and/or conniving (one is a parody of the Victorian spinster-companion, another the quintessential Victorian female hypochondriac); victimized by men who are brutal rapists, emotional sadists, or simply inattentive, the women frequently achieve t
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