NMLP P-034843 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Two on a Tower

Thomas Hardy · Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington (London) · 1882

Reviewers attacked the novel as irreligious and immoral for its plot involving a bishop's marriage to the pregnant widowed heroine, and Hardy toned down the offending passages beginning with the second edition of 1883

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-034843 for "Two on a Tower" by Thomas Hardy (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034843, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).