Thomas Hardy’s “An Imaginative Woman,” with Jessica Camilli

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Join Grace & new pal of the pod Jessica Camilli for an exploration of Thomas Hardy's short story "An Imaginative Woman"! Neglectful husbands! Affairs of the mind! Aesthetic preoccupations that prove fatal! What more could you want?

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Works Cited:

“An Imaginative Woman,” by Thomas Hardy, from the collection Women Who Did, ed. Angelique Richardson, 2002. Publisher’s Website.

“Imagination, Poetic Creation, and Gender: Hardy’s ‘Imaginative Woman,’” by Michal Peled Ginsburg. University of Chicago Press, 2012. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/668446?journalCode=mp

“Mrs. Marchmill, Mother and Poetess,” by Ruth Essex. The Thomas Hardy Journal, Oct. 1994. https://www.jstor.org/stable/45274120