A Group of Noble Dames

A Group of Noble dames is an 1891 collection of short stories written by Thomas Hardy. It is a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or 18th century. Other notable books by Thomas Hardy include Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native, Far from the Madding Crowd, A Pair of Blue Eyes, Wessex Tales, and Under the Greenwood Tree.