✨ Maude ✨’s Reviews > Tess of the D'Urbervilles > Status Update
✨ Maude ✨
is 15% done
Thomas Hardy goes from deep, kind understanding of women to ✨ preachy sexism ✨ like a fucking metronome 🌀
« The experience that so OVERWHELMED her for the time » (she was raped btw)
« Let the truth be told: women do as a rule live through such humiliations and regain their spirits, and again look about the world with an interested eye. »
Im getting whiplash
— Jul 27, 2026 08:15AM
« The experience that so OVERWHELMED her for the time » (she was raped btw)
« Let the truth be told: women do as a rule live through such humiliations and regain their spirits, and again look about the world with an interested eye. »
Im getting whiplash
Like flag
✨ Maude ✨’s Previous Updates
✨ Maude ✨
is 5% done
Thomas Hardy is quickly becoming one of my favourite authors! I’m already tearing up
— Jun 21, 2026 06:32PM