Gender Issues in Hardy's Works

From his first (unpublished) novel, The Poor Man and the Lady to his last (posthumously published) volume of verse, Winter Words, Hardy demonstrated his fascination with the relationship between the sexes. Some of the many gender-related subtopics which Hardy addressed in his works are:

• Passionate Heroines
• The Fallen Woman
• Images of Masculinity
• Androgyny
• Marriage Laws and The Woodlanders