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Victorian Married Life Thomas Hardy Inn Context Directly

Front Thomas Hardy - At an Inn
Context directly related to content of the poem x2
Back •In Victorian society deeply inappropriate for a man to go for a drink with a women he isn't married to 
•Speaker finds Victorian morality restrictive - sympathetic for 2017 reader as the idea of a life partner is increasingly more unralistic 
•Based on a real life rel. between H and Florence Henniker => he admired her but they were both married to other people.

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